Frank Atanassow wrote:
> ... maybe Jerzy could write up something which elaborates this remark:
>
> > I confess that I became interested in Haskell *because* of its possible
> > applications to scientific computing, and *in particular* to quantum
> > physics. (And some statistical physics; the underlying math is very
> > similar, and this is not accidental).
> >
> >
> > Mind you, this is a domain where you see immediately the necessity of
> > computing using higher-order functions!
> >
> > Your states are functions. Your mathematical objects are functions. Your
> > physical quantities (observables) are functions acting on states.
etc.
Well, try to have a look here:
http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/arpap/quantfun.pdf
Concretely: section 3, page 6. This is an introduction to *such*
applications of FP. The beginning of this paper is an elementary
introduction to FP you won't probably need...
Anyway, thank you *very* much for your interest.
==
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France
