Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

[Doyley, Marvin]

address@hidden (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

Thanks everybody for highlighting the benefits of python. I am exploring
python with a few undergraduates. I am impressed how well python plays
with Fortran, f2py is awesome. The syntax is very similar to MATLAB so
migration should be easy, if I decided to move in that direction.

Best Wishes,
M

 
> Grant Rettke <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
>
> Since people are championing python, and R and Octave have been
> mentioned, let me throw this one into the discussion:
> http://www.sagemath.org/
>
> "Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under
> the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy,
> SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more"
>
> "Many more" includes Octave as well. If you know python, then you can
> use only python in Sage, no need for learning anything new.
>
> Actually you do not need to install anything to use it:
> https://cloud.sagemath.com/
>
> At Sage Math Cloud (SMC) besides Sage, you can access a terminal there
> and it has emacs already installed. Also you can ssh to their servers,
> and tramp with emacs locally works well connecting to it. That is what I
> use for research.
>
> Come to think about it, there is no ob-sage.el yet. I write my papers
> directly to LaTeX (and my collaborators write at SMC since they are not
> emacs users and it provides direct compilation and shows already the
> results) so I never thought about exporting to sage. Does someone have
> any plans for this?
>
> Jorge.
>
>
>

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