On 06/10/06, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A. M. Archibald wrote:
> > Is setting out to create a "MATLAB replacement" a good goal?
>
> No.
I see what you mean, but I still think that using MATLAB as a
yardstick ("Can users do everything with the python superpackage that
they could with MATLAB?" "Is it of comparable or lesser difficulty?")
is a good idea, at least until we've clearly outstripped it in all
categories.
> 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.
This is what I mean about using it as a yardstick.
As a MATLAB survivor, would you be interested in going to
http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users and adding numerical tools
that MATLAB has, so that we can use it as a checklist for what tools
we'd like to have (first)? I put a short list there, but it's years
since I last used MATLAB.
> MPL has almost solved one, and SciPy is getting better an better -- so
> we're really on the right track!
I agree.
A. M. Archibald
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