MATLAB

dear lord why is this shit so frustrating???

are there any decent alternatives to this CLOSED_SOURCE_ENTERPRISE_BULLSHIT_ARRAY____PROGRAMMIN'

in b4 functional languages. 

SCHEME LOL

i*i

for i=1:2
i
end
i

GNU's Not Unix's Octave

>>1
Scilab

>>4
Hmm, I'm trying to search for this, but I'm not sure what the G stands for in GNU. Any ideas?

Package: octave
Priority: optional
Section: math
Installed-Size: 96
Maintainer: Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>;
Architecture: all
Source: octave2.9
Version: 1:2.9.19-2
Depends: octave2.9
Filename: pool/main/o/octave2.9/octave_2.9.19-2_all.deb
Size: 68026
MD5sum: 200eb0aa2f26dba5c13cae22c87730ba
SHA1: ca59a288e4d372496a5c3a88dc809bb9042a816f
SHA256: 3b8127d2c62b4430da71eced4e3d5dcf1e835b848c1456ab2c1f759ef696b2b4
Description: GNU Octave language for numerical computations (2.9 branch)
 Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily
 intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line
 interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
 .
 This package is an empty 'virtual' package whose sole purpose is to
 install the current Octave version from the 2.9 branch (the recommended
 testing branch) .
 .
 Once you have the octave2.9 package installed, you can remove this package.
Homepage: http://www.octave.org/
Tag: devel::lang:octave, field::mathematics, role::metapackage, suite::gnu

>>1
Actually much of the MATLAB functionality is in open source .m files

Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with a set of criteria

>>9
Open source exactly means access to the source code. It's not free* software though.

_{^{* Free as in freedom}}

http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd

RMS Matthew Stallman does not approve this.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

Any comments on Scipy?

It looks quite promising despite the forced indentation and all that. Octave and friends are basically low quality MATLAB implementations whereas Scipy doesn't suffer from such braindead language design.

Octave and friends are basically low quality MATLAB implementations
way to qualify an assertion using vague terms.

>>14
Scipy is quite OK. Its documentation sucks quite a bit, though. I've never used Matlab, so I don't know how they compare, only that much of its functionality is supposedly copied from Matlab.

Haskell.

>>17
But does it have imtoolbox?

>>18
Terrible!

Lain.