I'm out of industry and back in school these days, focusing on autonomous robots to speak generally. One of the things I knew to expect was MATLAB, and I'm learning it as I thought I'd need to. But I don't want to make it my tool of choice in the long run. I won't give a technical review here (and I don't know enough yet to give a full review), but I'm generally a pro-open kind of person. And MATLAB is definitely propriety.
But it sure pwns the competition in the research world. (Update: I mean this in terms of apparent market share, not in terms of technical merit which again I feel too ignorant to comment on.)
The main alternative is SciPy. JScience and many other options for Java seem either unmaintained or too complicated. Hmm.
What about Octave?
ReplyDeleteI haven't used Octave. My understanding is that it's semi-compatible with MATLAB. I'll have to keep it on my radar. Thanks for the reminder.
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