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- From: vin@cs.arizona.edu (Vincent W. Freeh)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
- Subject: Scientific Programs?
- Message-ID: <19713@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:23:37 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
- Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson
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- I am interested in using functional languages to solve
- scientific problems. Some of the problem I am curious about
- are: Jacobi Iteration, SOR, adaptive quadrature, FFT, to name a few.
-
- In my investigation I have only found real world scientific problems,
- such as the above, solved in the functional language SISAL.
- Because of SISAL's for-all and for-initial constructs, mapping from an
- imperative algorithm for the FFT to SISAL is relatively straight-forward (one
- of the goals of the SISAL project). However, I have not seen any examples
- of these types of problems solved in a ``traditional''
- functional language--i.e. using recursion and/or pattern matching.
-
- I am wondering if this is because
- a) no one has tried it, or
- b) I haven't looked in the right places, or
- c) it cannot be done, or
- d) none of the above.
-
- I am hoping the answer is b. But I can live with a.
- Please inform me if you have solved any of the above or
- similar problems using a ``traditional'' functional language.
-
- Thanks,
- Vince.
-