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Octave is decent at what it does, but nothing in the open source world comes remotely close to Mathematica. Having easy access to it (and more importantly, bei
by dfranke 17y ago
Octave is decent at what it does, but nothing in the open source world comes remotely close to Mathematica. Having easy access to it (and more importantly, being able to expect my peers to have the same) is one of the things I miss most about being a student. Wolfram's recent price cut for non-student personal use is alluring, though. Some time soon I might break down and pay for it.
- jerf 17y agoI wasn't claiming it was a replacement, just that it, well, exists. Other proprietary areas don't have any open source competition where the target audience has even less overlap with "programmers".
- apgwoz 17y agoI think octave is targeting matlab ddirectly, though mathmatica is obviously another competitor to both.