Octave is getting more mature and is much more usable these days. It is mostly matlab compatible in syntax.
scilab used to be better than octave, don't know the state at the moment, but the syntax is different than matlab. PDL as mentioned is a perl extention that also has a limited command line interface. Very not matlab. If you want programing libraries, the linear algebra standards are blas for vector and matrix operations and lapack for linear systems. There is a free library and the intel optimized version is also free for personal use under linux (mkl). There are a multitued of other libraries if you tell your requirements I can sujest a few. For programing by the way, fortran is a lot closer to matlab than c/c++ and for mathematical work (matrices mainly) can be a lot more powerful. you can also always get a free matlab compatible matlab from bittorrent ;-) On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:18:25 -0500 Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10:36 Sun 26 Oct , Wu, Kejia wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? > > > > I feel very grateful to any suggestion. > > > > > Another idea, is pdl which is a very powerful math system based > upon perl. you can do major matrix calculations and data > visualization all in a very perlish way. > > it was built by astronomers who wanted a free matlab based on > a great and natural scripting language. > > it is awesome. > > i also use maxima and xmaxima and octave. > > mitchell > > > > > > Regards, > > Kejia > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
