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From: Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>
To: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	"Doyley, Marvin M." <mdoyley@ur.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:07:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAjq1md2YzcbL9aJPgDcR3hvOVREU4cib-G4mG2W621OPwUqrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAjq1mf_iAP9K9-Wu5OwyrxYUvdA7fAEPTF2A_Vsyg-m5yxpqw@mail.gmail.com>

Now that I wrote that... MATLAB is totally worth the money.

A nice option for reproducible research is also to develop on MATLAB
and just make sure that OCTAVE can run it, too. Nice when you don't
want to worry about N licenses for deploying on a HPC cluster.
Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop
taking it seriously.” --Thompson


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> wrote:
> Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
> Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
> gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
> “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
> “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop
> taking it seriously.” --Thompson
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Marvin,
>>
>> * On 2014-07-09 at 18:37, Doyley, Marvin M. wrote:
>>> I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a
>>> reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an
>>> issue.
>>
>> An additional blog post (with good discussion and links to other posts)
>> on the Python v. MATLAB debate:
>>
>> http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://phillipmfeldman.org/Python/Advantages_of_Python_Over_Matlab.html
>>
>>   -k.
>>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-12  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-09  0:24 An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint Doyley, Marvin M.
2014-07-09 19:08 ` John Kitchin
2014-07-09 22:37   ` Doyley, Marvin M.
2014-07-11  0:45     ` Grant Rettke
2014-07-11  1:02       ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-11  1:43       ` Doyley, Marvin M.
2014-07-11  3:32     ` John Kitchin
2014-07-11  6:07       ` Martin Schöön
2014-07-11  7:16     ` Detlef Steuer
2014-07-12  0:31     ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-12  2:03       ` Grant Rettke
2014-07-12  2:07         ` Grant Rettke [this message]
2014-07-12 15:14         ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-07-12 22:43           ` Doyley, Marvin
2014-07-09 20:02 ` Grant Rettke
2014-07-12 18:53 ` TP

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