Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage « Bloody Fingers

[Owen Densmore]

I've been exploring Sage, the nifty python-based unification of the  
core of open source mathematics.  From their docs:
   The overall goal of Sage is to create a viable, free, open-source
   alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and MATLAB."
Pretty big task!

While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this:
   http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/

Give it a look.  I'd like to know who all has used it and what their  
experiences have been.

     -- Owen



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[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this:
>  
> http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/ 
>
SciPy has a lot of stuff, but for statistics it's not in same league of
R.  R itself a versatile programming language and has a vast set of
contributed packages, often representing the state-of-the-art.  Much
work has been to make R embeddable.  

http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy_demo.html

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[Robert Holmes]

An interesting link from that page to a Sage competitor: http://www.pythonxy.com/foreword.php

Robert

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:

Owen Densmore wrote:

While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this:
 http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/

SciPy has a lot of stuff, but for statistics it's not in same league of R.  R itself a versatile programming language and has a vast set of contributed packages, often representing the state-of-the-art.  Much work has been to make R embeddable.  
http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy_demo.html

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[Owen Densmore]

Sigh, no Mac version.  I suspect that'll be fixed soon, and it does  
look interesting.

Might be fun to have someone try it, and see how well it compares with  
sage.

     -- Owen


On Nov 21, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:

> An interesting link from that page to a Sage competitor:
> http://www.pythonxy.com/foreword.php
>
> Robert
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]
> >wrote:
>
>> Owen Densmore wrote:
>>
>>> While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this:
>>>
>>> http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/
>>>
>> SciPy has a lot of stuff, but for statistics it's not in same  
>> league of R.
>> R itself a versatile programming language and has a vast set of  
>> contributed
>> packages, often representing the state-of-the-art.  Much work has  
>> been to
>> make R embeddable.
>> http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy_demo.html
>>
>>
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[Phil Henshaw-2]

Nature continues to change the problem set…    Systems embody rules, but they also develop and change.   There are sure signals of that, well, some sure signals at any rate.      It’s sometimes easily forecast from a long way off, and then necessitates exploration to find new choices.     What could be simpler and more potentially useful, if also seemingly not understood?

 

Wazup?   What’s not to “get” in that?     Really….

 

Phil Henshaw   

 

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