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kragen on April 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Egison Programming Language

try implementing symbolic differentiation in a language like haskell or egison, and then again in a language like python or js, and your perspective on what is 'easy to understand and debug' is very likely to change

znafelrif on April 30, 2023 [–]

Do you have an example of such an implementation in haskell?

kragen on April 30, 2023 | [–]

googling i found https://gist.github.com/amalex5/541dc739201bbd8e26037b6738cd... although it's missing the type declaration

http://5outh.blogspot.com/2013/05/symbolic-calculus-in-haske... is more complete and also includes an explanation and a bunch of algebraic simplifications you'd usually want along with the symbolic differentiation itself

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