From: Beni Cherniavsky (cben_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 27 Apr 2003 - 22:06:38 IDT
Shaul Karl wrote on 2003-04-27:
> What about octave? How is it compared to matlab? Aren't there other
> open source replacements? Perhaps if you can mention what thought of work
> you are doing then some open source replacements will be listed.
> Just curious. I have no experience with non of the above but did see
> those names get mentioned in ML.
>
Octave is OK for basic matlab scripts and is even a bit better
designed, as far as the language goes. However it lacks most of the
power of matlab's extensive "toolboxes" - to people depending on
these, octave is pretty useless (as far as I heard)...
I personally have great fun with Python_ and it's Numeric_ extension
and never want to go back to Matlab (which is the most ad-hoc language
design I ever saw, not counting M$'s creations). There is a quite big
numeric processing community around Python, that created multiple
libraries for plotting and other things. In particular SciPy_ seems
very good (but I never tried it).
. _Python: http://www.python.org
. _Numeric: http://numpy.sf.net
. _SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/
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