"And on the non-free front..." The horror, the humanity
Best Regards, Dov Levenglick DSP SoC System and Applications Engineer, Network and Computing Systems Group Freescale Semiconductor Israel Tel. +972-9-952-2804 The information contained in this email is classified as: [ ] Freescale General Business Information [ ] Freescale Internal Use Only [ ] Freescale Confidential Proprietary [x] Personal Memorandum -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yosef Meller Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 21:23 To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] PDL ציטוט Amir E. Aharoni: > Hi, > > I'm trying to move away from Windows as much as i can. I don't need it > for anything, but my wife is doing her second degree in Physics (she > is a lot more smarter than i am) and she is a heavy user of scientific > software, in particular MATLAB. > > I don't know almost anything about this kind of software, but some > people claim that PDL is a worthy and free competitor to MATLAB. If MATLAB is her preferred environment, I would suggest GNU-Octave as a free replacement. It lags behind in graphics, but other than that it's very useful, and Octave 3.0 is nearing its release and promises to close most of the gap. > Does anyone on this list have positive experience with it? If you can > compare it to MATLAB, it would be nice too. I have a negative experience with PDL - after I wrote some program with it, when I upgraded PDL I suddenly found that I have no eigenvalues because of a bug, so my program wouldn't work at all. The only thing I can really say about it is that if you must use Perl for physics work, PDL is probably better than plain Perl. > I know i can search for such comparisons on the web, but it will be > particularly useful to know how does PDL fit into the Israeli academic > environment (my wife studies in the Hebrew University) - for example > would it possible to prepare a thesis in Physics in HUJI or Technion > (solid state, semiconductors, etc.) using PDL instead of MATLAB. > > Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Also there's numpy for Pythoneers, scilab (not exactly MATLAB compatible, but close enough), and possibly others. And on the non-free front, MATLAB is available for Linux too. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
