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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/cool_fractals_with_perl_pdl_a_benchmark Cheers Xavier On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would really love to see some comparison between the various matrix > oriented programming languages: > > PDL, IDL, Octave, Matlab, NumPy, Scilab,... > > I don't really know any of these, and I'd like to understand their pros > and cons a bit better. > > > * IDL and Matlab are very widely used, but expensive and closed source. > > * Matlab has a bazillion toolboxes that PDL and NumPy lack, but PDL > and NumPy give you a general purpose programming language that can do > a bazillion things Matlab can't do. > > * Octave is highly compatible with Matlab, but it runs on *nix only. > > * Scilab, Matlab and IDL are easy to install and have a GUI. So that's > a point for Scilab as a Matlab/IDL replacement. > > * PDL and IDL both have "Data Language" on their name. Does that mean > they are similar? What is a data language anyway? How does it differ > from something like Matlab? > > * Can anyone comment on speed? > > * Can anyone comment on interesting features or missing features in any > of these? > > > At a personal level, I'll probably prefer PDL simply because I already > like Perl. But I still want to understand more about the alternatives. > > Thanks for your time. > > Daniel. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
