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by Questron 3336 days ago
Yes, pointers to pointers etc. are difficult to grasp, but then again, so is passing functions as arguments. Also, information wasn't as readily available then as it is now.

Anyways, to make a long story short, here's "mega-deriver" numerical calculus package I just whipped up in COMMODORE BASIC 2.0: http://imgur.com/94eNuSX

It should run (unmodified?) on all MS BASIC dialects of the time (including Apple II and VIC-20). Note the higher precision of floating-point numbers than the puny m86k lisp the OP linked to. This one's probably faster, too ;)