What is the programming paradigm in Mathcad?

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April 11, 2016
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I have some experience in C language, and I know the structured programming, and in the structured programming there are no the "functions": break and continue as there are in MathCad programming.

In Mathcad the programing paradigm is object oriented, declarative or another?

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Best answer by StuartBruff

rking-2 wrote:

I have some experience in C language, and I know the structured programming, and in the structured programming there are no the "functions": break and continue as there are in MathCad programming.

In Mathcad the programing paradigm is object oriented, declarative or another?

Mathcad is a mix of declarative and functional. Functions are (almost) first class objects and can be passes as arguments and returned from programs / functions. With the addition of a few simple functions to cater for implicit loops, I can often write a worksheet in a functional form that transfers well to, for example, Haskell.

I suggested object-oriented as an extension about a decade ago (my, how tempus has fugited!).

Stuart

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rking-2 wrote:

I have some experience in C language, and I know the structured programming, and in the structured programming there are no the "functions": break and continue as there are in MathCad programming.

In Mathcad the programing paradigm is object oriented, declarative or another?

Mathcad is a mix of declarative and functional. Functions are (almost) first class objects and can be passes as arguments and returned from programs / functions. With the addition of a few simple functions to cater for implicit loops, I can often write a worksheet in a functional form that transfers well to, for example, Haskell.

I suggested object-oriented as an extension about a decade ago (my, how tempus has fugited!).

Stuart

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RichardJ

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C has both break and continue statements, and they do the same things as the break and continue statements in Mathcad.

Trying to compare C to Mathcad is kind of like trying to compare a fish to a dog. They are so far apart that it probably doesn't make much sense. If you do want to make such a comparison, then in addition to what Stuart has said Mathcad worksheets can also include things that are best thought of as objects (such as graphs and controls). I certainly wouldn't call it "object oriented" though.

Perhaps we could give you a better answer if we knew the reason behind your question.

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rking-2

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Hello Richard

The C language has statements "break" and "continue" of course the C language, but they are not accepted by the structured programming, the book "C how to program" of Deitel and other say it.

My question is motivated to find a language with the same paradigm of Mathcad programing (or at least the same statements) and practice because I have not found much information programming in Mathcad.