From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Rettke Subject: Re: An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:07:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zjgiwdsd.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> <577F5732-98D5-4237-9780-C5E629DC2F30@ur.rochester.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5miR-00067r-DB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:07:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5miQ-0008OX-7S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:07:07 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22d]:49497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5miQ-0008OG-3L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:07:06 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f173.google.com with SMTP id vb8so1802592obc.18 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:07:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ken Mankoff Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" , "Doyley, Marvin M." 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/ =E2=80=9CWisdom begins in wonder.=E2=80=9D --Socrates ((=CE=BB (x) (x x)) (=CE=BB (x) (x x))) =E2=80=9CLife has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to st= op taking it seriously.=E2=80=9D --Thompson On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Grant Rettke wro= te: > 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/ > =E2=80=9CWisdom begins in wonder.=E2=80=9D --Socrates > ((=CE=BB (x) (x x)) (=CE=BB (x) (x x))) > =E2=80=9CLife has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to = stop > taking it seriously.=E2=80=9D --Thompson > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Ken Mankoff 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. >>