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Octave?

• dagw 13y ago
  Octave is close enough to Matlab to have inherited most of its flaws, yet not close enough to be a complete drop-in replacement. Julia, while obviously inspired by Matlab, is not attempting any sort of comparability, and thus can fix flaws and be a better language. Octave, in my opinion, should be relegated to (trying to) run legacy Matlab code, while Julia or Numpy should be the first choice for any new code.
  • jordigh 13y ago
    > Octave, in my opinion, should be relegated to (trying to) run legacy Matlab code, while Julia or Numpy should be the first choice for any new code. Octave dev here. I agree. Every time I have to implement yet another idiocy of the Matlab language, I die a little inside. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
    • papaf 13y ago
      And its greatly appreciated.
    • taliesinb 13y ago
      Come work on a modern functional language!
      • jordigh 13y ago
        You mean mathics? Perhaps. I don't know how important it is to liberate mathematica code. It doesn't seem to have the deployment that Matlab has.