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 21:03:25 -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]:37251) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5met-0005M5-QU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:03:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5mes-0006Xe-SG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:03:27 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22c]:48713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5mes-0006Ws-Md for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:03:26 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f172.google.com with SMTP id wn1so2047291obc.31 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:03:26 -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." 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 st= op 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. >