| Re: Any cross-platform IDL alternatives? [message #27244 is a reply to message #27179] |
Mon, 15 October 2001 09:49   |
Amanda Kepley
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Registered: July 2001
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jean Koclas wrote:
> There is Mathematica by Wolfram. Granted, it is not inexpensive, but is
> multi platform, and is much more useful IMHO than matlab, etc.
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> It has a powerful language, and has many facilities for data visualization.
> And it has supported MacOS since it started up...
Mathematica is a very poor choice for data analysis. It is difficult to
get data in and out of as well as a total memory hog. I ended up giving
Mathematica 50 Megs of memory and still having the kernel crash because
there wasn't enough memory, and that was just a project with a small data
set in an undergraduate statistics class. I don't even want to think about
trying to do any real work in it.
I've been playing with Splus (a relative of R) recently and it seems
pretty sane in the way it's constructed the language (it's all
objects). Splus has no support for Macintosh, but if R is at all similar,
it looks very promising.
Amanda Kepley
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