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Depends on the field of course. I'm in environmental science/energy economics so python is kind of a no-brainer if you want to go open source (and we do). Howe
by cwal37 13y ago
Depends on the field of course. I'm in environmental science/energy economics so python is kind of a no-brainer if you want to go open source (and we do).
However, my significant other is working on a physics PhD and everything she does is in C or C++ with CERN ROOT. I used to use Matlab, and she thought it was adorably weak. I get a little more respect using Python now at least.
- jedrek 13y agoWhy do you say that it's a no-brainer?
- cwal37 13y agoIf you want to be completely open source. There seem to be a lot more libraries and general capability with the specific license we need. I really should have clarified better, I seem to have lost a word or two in there. What I'm working on needs to interface with many different existing modeling and optimization efforts at some point, and of the options out there Python seems to be the most understood by the largest group of people (statisticians/scientists/programmers). With python we can keep everything 100% open and available to the largest number of people.
- bambam12897 13y agoIt's funny how domain dependent this is. In controls/filters/vision/applied-math no one don't takes anything other than MATLAB seriously. There are of course the C/C++/FORTRAN gurus that write LAPACK/BLAS/OpenCV etc. , but they're kinda in their own world. MATLAB is the de-facto wrapper for these libraries, and all prototyping is done in it.