On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 07:58 AM, peter bunge wrote:
Some functions were not available in my standard version - in
particular, "DO" loops !
I know Fortran has do loops. (And many other coding languages do too.)
If you friend is 'after' do loops... I'm pretty sure that Mathcad Professional 7.0 does not have 'do loops' (just for and while loops)
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Mathcad, Matlab, Octave et. al., are based on computations with matrices, and vectors... not only... but that's appears to be the original 'design' philosophy.
Many operations on those mathematical objects translate 'naturally' to 'for loops', like summation, and matrix multiplication.
In the days of limited CPU 'power' on PCs, when Mathcad, and Matlab, first came about, for loops were faster... and that mattered for matrix computations on large dimensional matrices/
I don't think any of these so called 'numerical computing environments' support 'do loop' loops... even in the latest versions.
