On 8/15/11 2:58 PM, William Stein wrote:
Hi,
If somebody walked up to *you* and asked: "Is Sage now a viable
alternative to MATLAB?" what would you say?
I'm especially interested in what people who do numerical/applied
computation think.
My answer: "It's very difficult for *me* to answer this question
myself, because MATLAB is useless for most of my own
teaching/research/work, but I realize it is very widely used in
applied mathematics. Based on going to Scipy and the resources I've
seen online, it appears that the Numpy/Scipy stack is extremely useful
to actual people doing numerical computation. Maybe I'll try
asking on sage-devel."
The scipy or numpy lists have threads on this occasionally. Usually
many people will chime in and say why they switched from MATLAB.
Here's at least one of these threads:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/27115
and one message in particular:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/27115/focus=27127
and another:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/27115/focus=27127
And a message from another thread that has some very good links
comparing with matlab:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/8249/focus=8259
And one more message (but look at the entire associated thread):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/15078/focus=15080
People that would be good to ask that come to mind and from the above
threads would be:
* John Hunter (lead for Matplotlib)
* Travis Oliphant (maybe he wouldn't know, but I bet he knows people who
migrated from matlab)
* Sturla Molden
* Matthew Brett
Thanks,
Jason
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