Linked by Takuya Murata on Tue 18th May 2004 06:26 UTC
My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve. A simple harmonic oscillation was one he frequently used in class, as is presumably the case in physics in general.
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>> ... to functional (C and Matlab) ...
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>functional programming in C??
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>Surely you jest.
Well, I don't think Ellootre is joking, this is just a rather common mistake (that "functional programming" is non-OOP programming, when in fact "functional programming" is the alternative to "imperative programming").
And yes, one could try to do things in a functional manner in C (by using only constructors and selectors and avoiding mutator functions) but that would be rather awkward and it would require some special memory management tricks (allocate a lot of temporary stuff in a "local" heap then discard all the temporary stuff in one step by free()-ing the entire local heap and keeping only the "final" result on the stack or as a separate object on the "global" heap). But I repeat, this is quite weird.