About alternatives to Matlab

[George Sakkis]

Jon Harrop wrote:

> Ok. Perhaps starting a Python JIT in something like MetaOCaml or Lisp/Scheme
> would be a good student project?

I guess for a student project it's not that important, but if you have
higher ambitions, make sure you read
http://dirtsimple.org/2005/10/children-of-lesser-python.html before you
commit to writing what will turn out to be yet another "80% Python" VM
/ JIT compiler.

George