Does anyone do anything of this type? I'm currently playing with MATLAB, and it's pretty fun. There are some things that require a bit of getting used to, but it seems like it's the most used and programmable. We've got Maple at Uni as well, and I certainly prefer that for entering and manipulating equations. I haven't done much with Mathematica, and those are the only programs I'm familiar with. I'm under the impression that a component of the scientific community uses Python; but I suspect that's only because it's more accessible to them than other programming languages (and probably due to some existing math libraries which make things easier).
Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? I believe MATLAB has some sort of interaction with Amazon EC2 for running distributed items, which seems very cool, but I'm yet to do anything anywhere near as interesting as requiring that. Interested to hear if anyone has done any work/investigation in this area. -- silky Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature.
