Automatic differentiation using almost any language

  • Authors:
  • Max E. Jerrell

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

F. W. Pfeiffer [1] has recently indicated that automatic partial differentiation of functions can be easily accomplished using the PROSE language. Other authors have implemented these techniques in other special purpose languages which allow user defined operators[2]. It is relatively easy to implement these capabilities in any language which has a minimum of data structure representation. Additionally, it is not difficult to extend the method to deliver numerical values for any order derivative desired.