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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:31:38 -0400
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To: "Doyley, Marvin M." <mdoyley@ur.rochester.edu>
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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.