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Re: Functional programming?

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• Subject: [mg92012] Re: [mg91945] Functional programming?
• From: "peter lindsay" <pl.0 at me.com>
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:27:32 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200809130957.FAA03536@smc.vnet.net>

I found this excellent resource by Jose Gomez-Munoz below:

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jose Luis Gomez <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx>
Date: 2008/2/15
Subject: [mg92012] [mg85615] From procedural to functional programming in Mathematica
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net


Dear group:



A small tutorial for going from procedural to functional programming in
Mathematica:

http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/matecmatica/funcionalprog.nb



Here is an html version

http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/matecmatica/fp/fp.html



I hope is useful



Jose

Mexico





2008/9/13 AES <siegman at stanford.edu>:
> I suggest it might be instructive if some of the functional programming
> proponents on this group could provide us DO-looping old timers with a
> brief summary or tutorial as to what is really meant by, or involved in,
> "functional programming"?
>
> --- especially as this concept might relate to building programs to do
> calculations involving multi-stage real-world engineering or technical
> problems
>
> --- and especially as it might relate to programs that are going to be
> developed in an evolutionary process and that in the end, rather than
> being built into some long-term library, are maybe only going to be run
> or executed a few times before the person involved (e.g., an engineer,
> or scientist, or other real-world individual, not a "programmer") moves
> on to some other totally different task or assignment.
>
>



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  • Functional programming?
    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>