Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[mauriceling@acm.org]

Hi David

I am not familiar with ImpulseC.

I think it may be unlikely for Python to replace MATLAB - maybe Python
has less specialized libraries than MATLAB but Python has the width of
applications. I will be hardpressed to think of a convincing argument
to teach MATLAB as a replacement of Python/Perl/C to computer science
undergraduates.

Your question is almost asking will Python replace R/S-Plus? Unlikely.

However, there is Octave (www.octave.org) which states "GNU Octave is
a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and
nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical
experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab."
Hence, will it be more suitable for your Masters to study the
implementation of a Python-Octave library? Pretty much like what RPy
and RPython did for R and Python?

Cheers
Maurice