A Comparison of Functional and Imperative Programming Techniques for Mathematical Software Development

Functional programming has traditionally been considered elegant and powerful, but also somewhat impractical for ordinary computing. Proponents of functional programming claim that the evolution of functional languages makes their use feasible in many domains. In this work, a popular imperative lang...

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Main Authors: Scott Frame, John W. Coffey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2014-04-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/MA079VM12.pdf