Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
mauriceling@acm.org
mauriceling at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 23:06:36 EST 2008
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
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