On Feb 17, 4:49 pm, Matt Goodman <meawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > MATLAB isn't a tool used outside of academia very often.
I think you are wrong here. I don't have any data to point to though. Do you have any data on this? > Its licensing makes it hard to redistribute code (like to a third party), > or even run it on a couple different workstations in a HPC sense. Huh? How so? You write a program, you own it, you can give it to someone else. Did they make that hard to do somehow? > Its a > great tool for quick and dirty analyses, but overall its a terribly > crafted language for development with more than one developing party. I would guess that its large number of users just run Matlab programs to get answers. When they write their own programs, they are likely to be rather small. I am not in any way defending the design decisions in the Matlab language itself, which has a number of glaring problems from the computer science perspective. But it is popular and useful. > I > would guess the matlab base is about 2x the scientific python community, but > the science python people are only 5%-10% of Python users. The same foes > for LabView etc. I think you are way off, and the Matlab community is many times the scientific python community, but again I have no data. I suspect that the serious scientific computing community is almost all non-python, and that it consists of C/Fortran/Matlab. I would discount the people trying to adapt python for scientific computing, or trying to promote it for other people to use. I would count only those people who are employed as computational scientists in some application domain who have chosen python. > > Its easy to forget that science Python is a serious _minority_ in the Python > community. I attend the Enthought monthly Python meetup here in Austin, and > of 50 people, maybe 3-5 are science Python programmers. I am not surprised that there is a relatively small overlap between scientific computing and Python programming. Most scientific computing tasks are sensitive to efficiency of resulting code. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
