MATLAB vs Octave

MATLAB is much faster and the built in IDE is the greatest IDE ever created and the only one worth using.

On the other hand, Octave's has some syntax extensions that really make it look nicer.

I can't decide.

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for differential equation use intdiff.bc, and matrices, arrays with arrays (array.bc is fine):
http://phodd.net/gnu-bc/#fastnav

For matrices, you might want to make a heap array of arrays.

le docs:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/bc.html

And when an application is required, I use ATS.