A. M. Archibald wrote:
> Is setting out to create a "MATLAB replacement" a good goal?
No.
> the goal should be to create a useful tool for scientists.
Yes.
> but I think MATLAB is clearly already that, so (at first) it can serve
> as a definite objective. Of course, anyone who wants to make scipy
> *better* than MATLAB should be warmly encouraged...
It already *is* better!
I say this as a former, committed MATLAB user. I personally think Python
is a much better foundation language, and numpy a better array
implementation.
MATLAB two advantages (and they are big ones!): integrated plotting and
a large and broad library of ready-to-use functions for a wide variety
of computing.
MPL has almost solved one, and SciPy is getting better an better -- so
we're really on the right track!
-Chris
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