On lørdag 29 oktober 2005, 17:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
mathematics [ octave ]
I'm, contrary to everybody else, going to comment just on this. My
favorite here is without a doubt R. r-recommended in Debian and
http://www.r-project.org/ on the web.
It has some minimal, but very cool, OO concepts (as opposed to e.g. the
proprietary IDL, which is supposed to be OO, but is (was) entirely
misunderstood), and has a very straightforward mapping between math and
code. E.g. for loops are unneeded in R, and that's actually a good
thing.
Highly recommended!