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Questions about Mathematica's procedural programming paradigm.

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Are there any cases when For[] loops are reasonable?

To my mind, there are at least two cases when For loops are ok: Inside Compile, or in code which is being written with Compile in mind When your inner loops are vectorized or made efficient by some …
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Functional equivalent of a For loop referring to consecutive elements in a list

Here are two possibilities. First, use MovingMap: ClearAll[av]; av[{l_, 0, r_}] := (l + r)/2; av[{_, m_, _}] := m; and then smoothMM[list_] := Join[{First@list}, MovingMap[av, list, 3], {Last@lis …
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