In the first part of the series , I examined Newton-Lagrange interpolation, using functional language idioms. So far only F# have been put to the pit, but now Ruby and C# have dropped in. Geek alert : this post might become text-intensive and boring, however looking at the code itself should be enough to get the groove. Ruby This is everyone's favorite toy . And it has a good reason to be - it has most of the idioms functional languages use (and you'll see that by comparing the F# code),...
Welcome to the Pit . In this series I'll try and explore idiomatic functional language usages with C# 3.0, F#, Ruby (IronRuby), Python (IronPython), and Scheme. I will provide a short description for each snippet just to get motivated, and will close the series with performance and numerical stability analysis. Test Subject Like any good test, there has to be a good test subject. Now, while I could do a dull iteration / manipulation of a list of ice-cream flavors, I picked something a bit more...