Intrinsic Differentiation and Integration in Programming Languages

[ice109]

are there any languages that have intrinsic differentiation and integration? other than interpreted languages like maple and mathematica?

 

[Mech_Engineer]

Symbolic or numeric? What would you applying the function to, a table of data? A stream of data?

Numeric integration and differentiation are relatively easy to implement depeding on the required degree of accuracy and the number data points you have to work with.

 

[ice109]

ironically i would like symbolic differentiation so that i can do numerical integration.

 

[Mech_Engineer]

ironically i would like symbolic differentiation so that i can do numerical integration.

I don't know of any programming languages that have a built-in symbolic manipulation package (other than specific math programs like you mentioned), but it might be possible to find a 3rd-party package or plugin.

 

[Mech_Engineer]

Doing a quick Google search gave me a link to this plugin for Java:

The JAVA Math Engine
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~plaval/applets/Help.html