comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple...

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple...

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... [message #19637 is a reply to message #19634]

Tue, 11 April 2000 00:00

marc schellens[1]
Messages: 183
Registered: January 2000

Senior Member

Mirko Vukovic wrote:
>
> In article <38EFE9C5.1C84B373@princeton.edu>,
> sangshim@princeton.edu wrote:
>> Dear Experts,
>> I don't think it is appropriate to ask this question here.
> But...
>> I have used IDL for my research (mostly fit and plot big
> datasets and
>> do numerical simulations) last 3 years and enjoyed a lot. Recently I
> am
>> interested in other math softwares but I cannot find information like
>> "which is good for which".
>> Would you compare IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dan
>>
> (not being an expert), I recently checked the Matlab site. And you
> know, they talk about operator overloading there! I'd love that in IDL.
>
> As for symbolic software, I would love if someone could point me to some
> that makes equation manipulation easy. I don't care much for evaluating
> an integral or a derivative, but something that easily pulls a factor
> out of an expression and stuff like that would make me a happy person.
>
> Mirko
Cool. I predict that this will become one of the very long threads.
Being also not an expert I heard from experts in my group that mathlab
is better for
instantaneous use, while IDL is better for programming use.
Even though (a statement I wanted to give for a long time) I think IDL
is made from scientists for
scientists, as C++ for example is made from programmers for programmers.
cheers,
:-) marc

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... By: davidf on Tue, 11 April 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 11 April 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... By: marc schellens[1] on Tue, 11 April 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... By: David McClain on Mon, 10 April 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... By: Brad Gom on Mon, 10 April 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple... By: Mirko Vukovic on Mon, 10 April 2000 00:00

Previous Topic:	control precision for the axis ticks
Next Topic:	Re: Using CALL_EXTERNAL with a pointer to a pointer

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 15:13:38 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 3.04221 seconds