On 18 February 2011 19:36, Matt Goodman <meawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding the academics comment, check this out: > http://www.google.com/trends?q=matlab%2C+python&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > Matlab related dips notably (~50% peak to trough) during spring, winter, and > summer breaks.
I can see the noticeable dips/troughs you see. As you say, you don't see them with Python. But I tried a few other terms. Like "statistics" http://www.google.com/trends?q=statistics&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 clearly statistics are used a lot in industry, but again there are patterns which repeat annually. > All I really have to say about MATLAB is for a piece of software backed by > millions of dollars of development, its pretty notably deficient. Deficient > by design actually, I mean why include image processing routines, when you > could charge more for that in a toolbox? But Mathworks primary aim is to make as much money as possible. If they feel that making image processing tools an optional item will maximise their profits, then they will do it. > There is nothing in there that you > couldn't develop in < 1000 hours of competent developer time, using standard > numerical recipes. But at say $100/hour to include developer time and overheads, that would have cost you $100,000 to build. I don't know what the toolbox costs, but it will be a lot less than that. > I didn't mean to start a flame war here, just wanted to present some > observations. They are useful observations, but my observations from industry is that MATLAB is used a lot. It clearly tends to be taught a lot too. It's interesting if you put "python" into Google trends, the popularity of the search term is slowly decreasing http://www.google.com/trends?q=python&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 As is MATLAB http://www.google.com/trends?q=matlab&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 and Mathematica http://www.google.com/trends?q=mathematica&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Mathematica has shown the largest fall, with less than half the searches as in 2004 http://www.google.com/trends?q=mathematica&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > --Matthew Goodman Dave -- 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
