There ist at least for Windows the very good IDE
http://mat.caminos.upm.es/octave/
which has the possibility to use English menues.
Also think of EULER Math Toolbox: http://euler.rene-grothmann.de/
Here is Maxima, YaCAS, TinyCC and Python included.
Maybe both are possible alternatives.
best
Wolfgang
|On 04/18/2013 02:33 PM, Michel Talon wrote:
|> Przemek Klosowski wrote:
|>> If you're looking for compatibility with existing software or coursework
|>> based on Matlab, you definitely should consider Octave which has
|>> compatibility as a design goal
|>
|> In my limited experience, scilab is much better than octave. At least
when i
|> looked at octave it was a *very* poor clone of matlab.
|
|I think that if one took a random sample of .m files, Octave would be
|more successful in running them---but I haven't performed the experiment
|so I can't say that with certainty. In my experience of using both
|Matlab and Octave, Octave is quite a reasonable clone. When did your
|negative experience happen and what deficiencies caused it?
|
|One area where people who previously used Matlab consistently complain
|about Octave is lack of graphical IDE, so Scilab wins some points there.
|Octave is currently in final stages of deploying an IDE, so in the
|future the scoring should be based on numerical performance and breadth
|of libraries, where Octave is going strong.