Re: Mathematica Vs. Matlab
From: Lupo LeBoucher (ix_at_io.com)
Date: 08/23/04
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:02:43 -0500
In article <IuxUc.5379$yd7.2970@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>,
paul <paul_tan@aoI.com> wrote:
>Actually that is not exactly true, Matlab used to be a better Numerical
>calculator compared to Mathematica before Mathematica 5.0, but after
>Mathematica 5.0, Matlab has no particular advantage. I guess Matlab is more
>like Excell, what can be done with Matlab can now be done with Excel. Also,
>it is true that what can be done with Matlab can be done with Mathematica,
>the converse is not true, meaning there are things Mathetica can do that
>Matlab is incapable of doing. My advice would be, if you were going to
>invest your time into learning a Math software, Mathematica is for sure the
>way to go, because it can do way more than Matlab ever could. Matlab stands
>for Matrix Lab, and it is based on a rigid matrix manipulation scheme,
>whereas Mathematica is capable of functional, pattern-based, and
>procedural..
*shrugs*
My advice would be to use Maple, because it does more of the kinds of
things I need to do than Mathematica does, and has a real, live academic
community at the University of Waterloo supporting it and adding nifty
things to it, like Lie symmetry packages, and Poincare mappers.
Matlab proficiency, on the other hand, is more likely to get you a job
when you're done school. I've never gotten paid to know about Mathematica
or Maple, but Matlab can pay the bills. Plus, there are free Matlab-a-likes
(Octave and Scilab) to cut your teeth on if you're short of cash.
As for "functional, pattern-based, and procedural" programming; big deal.
Common Lisp and relatives has had those capability + objects for decades,
and unlike Mathematica, it is even possible and relatively pleasant to
write large pieces of code in it. As a bonus, if you use the right
compiler, it's faster than anything else, even on Matlab type problems,
and you can run Axiom and Macsyma and a webserver (and ... all kinds of
other stuff) in it. Plus, it is free. Of course, everyone will make fun of
you for using Lisp.
-Lupo
"Like other totalitarians, they treat the mere expression of ideas
contrary to their slogans as a crime." -Jean-Francois Revel <ix@io.com>
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