see below: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 05:12, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojs...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:54:50PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > hi, > > I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an > > overview > > about advantages and disadvantages for each. > > Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic > interface) > > because it uses java and opengl for the interface. the devloppers said > > that the pb will be fixed in next version??!!! > > > > > > I want to switch to octave, before i want to be sure that is the good > > decision!! > > Hi Abdelkader, I have used octave but not scilab so I can't compare > the two but I have been following the development of octave and it > seems to be in good hands. Nice to hear that octave is in good hands, but did you look into R? R has full set of matrix functionality, is fast, and under rapid development. Kjetil > As you perhaps know then octave is almost > compatible with matlab but the major obstacle with octave was theyr > bad implementation of loops, don't know if this is fixed yet. But then > again since octave is a matrix calculation software the your better > off by turning every calculation into a matrix calculation then doing > loops. > > I don't know about graphical interfaces for octave, never used one, I > just write my .m files and run them. > > Octave uses advanced numerical libraries so you don't have to worry > much about performance. > > That is my take on octave, as I say I have never used scilab so I > can't really compare the two. > > HTH > > Oli > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402101208.ga3...@workman.lan > > -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984)
