I think Python is a OO and lite version of matlab

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Dec 8 07:02:26 EST 2006


On 8 dic, 06:57, "Allen" <che... at naritech.cn> wrote:
>
> If you have used matlab, you will say that they are very very similar,
> except that matlab was born years earlier and is used mainly in the
> area
> of matrix calculation.
>
> I do not mean Python shall feel ashamed for it. We will be pleased that
> Python
> does absorb many successful ideas of computer languages.

Personally, I dont like the Matlab language. I like the "no surprises"
approach of Python, the consistency along different objects, and of
course the vast builtin data structures that let me model almost
anything. None of these are present in Matlab.
I hate gotchas like the degenerate case of sum(M) for a one-row matrix
(avoidable, yes, but "Special cases aren't special enough to break the
rules.").
Of course, if all you do is working with matrices, it's wonderful!

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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