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Programming languages are not quite like operating systems (and even Linux has Wine). When you have a large codebase written in some language, you can't just ea
by jordigh 12y ago
Programming languages are not quite like operating systems (and even Linux has Wine). When you have a large codebase written in some language, you can't just easily throw it out and rewrite the whole thing in another language. Programming languages never really die out: COBOL is still used these days.
There is a lot of Matlab code out there, and it needs something to run in other than Matlab. That's why Octave is still important.
- brudgers 12y agoI didn't suggest Octave wasn't important as an alternative for MatLab. I stated my opinion that Python appears to be replacing MatLab in the niches where it dominates. If there is a new project, Python is likely to be a competitive alternative to MatLab or Octave.