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In article <51300008@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> kelly@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>A new paradigm is a new way of approaching a problem, isn't it?
>If LISP and smalltalk give me a whole new way of programming, I'd love to
>learn them.  What do they offer an engineer or scientist doing numerical
>programming?

You might be interested in the "Abstraction in Numerical Methods"
Tutorial to be given by Gerald Sussman and Mathiew Halfant at the
upcoming Snowbird conference {1988 Lisp and Functional Programming
Conference, 1988 July 25-27}.  They will probably be using a 
Lisp/Algol dialect called Scheme, which supports a wide variety
of programming styles, including functional/applicative and object
oriented.  Also, there is a excellent text, "The Structure and 
Interpretation of Computer Programs" {Abelson & Sussman, MIT, 1985}
which contains a fair number of numerical examples in various 
contexts.  Additionally, you might note the large amount of work 
on computer algebra systems done in various Lisps.

-Ken Dickey
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