From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-01-06T04:17:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Fun languages (was Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list))

On 1/4/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
> > On 1/4/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Mathematica is definitely fun, but expensive fun. Axiom is as much fun
> >> and is open source. :)
> >
> > Octave is fun and free too :)
> Octave is sorta kinda a free Matlab clone. And R is sorta kinda a free
> S-Plus clone.

Octave is a pretty good clone of Matlab, too.  For at least my needs.
I had no trouble getting through a linear algebra course which
required matlab using it.