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Re: WHICH FREEWARE MATLAB CLONE IS BETTER? Scilab or Octave
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Jim Van Zandt |
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Re: WHICH FREEWARE MATLAB CLONE IS BETTER? Scilab or Octave |
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Tue, 04 Feb 1997 15:32:23 -0500 |
In message <address@hidden>, lbliao writes:
>>>
>>>There are at least two free Matlab clones available for Linux.
>>>Perhaps they would meet your needs.
>>>
>>>SciLab at:
>>>http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/
>>>
>>>and Octave at:
>>>http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/
>>>
>>> Allen Ingling
>>Among the two freeware matlab clones that you mention, which is the
>>better one?...
>>How similar is the syntax of these clones to the original matlab?
Scilab has some symbolic capabilities the others lack. I believe a
polynomial is one of its primitive data types. I don't think it is
similar enough to matlab to justify the label "clone".
The Octave syntax is closer to matlab. Octave uses well known
numerical codes (lapack, for example). I don't know about Scilab.
- Jim Van Zandt