Re: octave versus scilab
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:54:50PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an overview about advantages and disadvantages for each. Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic interface) because it uses java and opengl for the interface. the devloppers said that the pb will be fixed in next version??!!! I want to switch to octave, before i want to be sure that is the good decision!! Hi Abdelkader, I have used octave but not scilab so I can't compare the two but I have been following the development of octave and it seems to be in good hands. As you perhaps know then octave is almost compatible with matlab but the major obstacle with octave was theyr bad implementation of loops, don't know if this is fixed yet. But then again since octave is a matrix calculation software the your better off by turning every calculation into a matrix calculation then doing loops. I don't know about graphical interfaces for octave, never used one, I just write my .m files and run them. Octave uses advanced numerical libraries so you don't have to worry much about performance. That is my take on octave, as I say I have never used scilab so I can't really compare the two. HTH Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402101208.ga3...@workman.lan
Re: octave versus scilab
see below: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 05:12, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojs...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:54:50PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an overview about advantages and disadvantages for each. Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic interface) because it uses java and opengl for the interface. the devloppers said that the pb will be fixed in next version??!!! I want to switch to octave, before i want to be sure that is the good decision!! Hi Abdelkader, I have used octave but not scilab so I can't compare the two but I have been following the development of octave and it seems to be in good hands. Nice to hear that octave is in good hands, but did you look into R? R has full set of matrix functionality, is fast, and under rapid development. Kjetil As you perhaps know then octave is almost compatible with matlab but the major obstacle with octave was theyr bad implementation of loops, don't know if this is fixed yet. But then again since octave is a matrix calculation software the your better off by turning every calculation into a matrix calculation then doing loops. I don't know about graphical interfaces for octave, never used one, I just write my .m files and run them. Octave uses advanced numerical libraries so you don't have to worry much about performance. That is my take on octave, as I say I have never used scilab so I can't really compare the two. HTH Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402101208.ga3...@workman.lan -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. George Orwell (1984)
octave versus scilab
hi, I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an overview about advantages and disadvantages for each. Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic interface) because it uses java and opengl for the interface. the devloppers said that the pb will be fixed in next version??!!! I want to switch to octave, before i want to be sure that is the good decision!! thanks for help regards
