Matlab is also a very big, fairly resource-intensive program. Henry (and others), what functionality does Matlab provide that you like? As Simon pointed out, there are other tools that can get the job done (mmm, gnuplot + octave) and maybe what we need to do is make a port/better-ui/tutorials for such.
In terms of straight-up calculation and matrix math, it's also very possible to use Python and a couple libraries - I've used Python in lieu of matlab in my engineering courses. One of its benefits is the strong selection of plugins for various disciplines/research fields, including plenty of things for interfacing with hardware - some of those plugins are open source; they are written in matlab code, but could be ported. -Mel On Jan 28, 2008 10:43 AM, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK Matlab is not open source. You can use octave > http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ or scilab http://www.scilab.org/ to > get the job done. _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
