Re: A question on Newton's Method

<beliavsky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Fortran 95 is a good language to learn the imperative (procedural)
> style of programming for numerical work, with a few elements of
> functional programming (pure and elemental functions) thrown in. The
> g95 compiler http://www.g95.org is free .

> What "computer-specific problems" do you avoid by using OCaml instead
> of Fortran? Do you mean "platform-specific"?

I can't believe you're wasting your time debating someone who
tinks that a lisp-like language is suitable for a beginner in
numerical analysis. How many times have you seen Mathematica
just go into the tank and never come back? Not to mention
that the syntax is just sooo obscure, for e.g. D[f[x],x] doesn't
yield the derivative of function f. It takes way more time to
figure out what the syntax is to ask Mathematica for the answer
than it does to just work out the answer by hand. It's a total
waste of time and math departments should just forget about
Mathematica and TI-85s that they seem to be so hung up on and
go back to teaching math or whatever it was they used to do.

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