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Re: [slightly OT]: Octave featured in Free Software magazine
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Dmitri A. Sergatskov |
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Re: [slightly OT]: Octave featured in Free Software magazine |
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Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:43:22 -0500 |
On 6/5/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
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And that's a statement in "Free Software Magazine"? Huh? At least
The whole article is pretty bad.
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PDL wins hands down. It provides nearly the same or better
capabilities than other more expensive proprietary solutions
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Biography
Xavier Calbet: Xavier Calbet (xcalbet AT googlemail DOT com)
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He is currently working on his two pet projects: a meteorological
field and satellite image display system, SAPO, and the best available
free numerical computer language to date, PDL (Perl Data Language).
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And earlier:
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PDL
PDL is an extension of the Perl language for number crunching and
scientific plotting
yet
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IDL
IDL is a proprietary and certainly not free number-crunching-oriented
language very similar to PDL
(For some reason he did not say that Matlab is a proprietary language that
implements a subset of Octave, such that a carefully crafted Octave code can
run in Matlab)
Etc..., etc...
Oh well.
Dmitri.
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