Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> I work on the Sage maths project which aims to create a viable free open >> source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab. > > Dave, > > I've use Octave which is supposed to be a F/OSS equivalent to Matlab. > Since I've never used the latter I can't confirm the equivalence. However, > Octave does run some Matlab packages. I used it only for a quick program to > calculate principal eigenvectors so I don't have a lot of experience with > it. You can check the Octave Web site if you've not yet seen it. > > Rich >
Thank you Rich. I was aware of Octave. I've only MATLAB a little myself - I mainly used Mathematica, but have found that is it not viable really due to its cost. Universities use it a lot, but I don't think it has much usage in industry. A search on a job site for Mathematica skills shows very little, whereas MATLAB is much more sought after. Sage is a LOT more capable than any other single open-source maths package. The source code is around 250 MB when compressed!! It consists of about 100 different packages (sqlite being one of them), with a common interface (pyton language). It is web based, so results are entered and shown in a browser. Not that I use HP-UX much, but it would be nice to see a port to an OS which none of the commercial programs support. Whilst sqlite will build on HP-UX, I suspect if a developer looked at the code, he/she might come up with the reason thosands of warnings are occurring. Just email me a user name you want IF you are are a serious sqlite developer. dave _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
