http://mendicantbug.com/2008/05/15/pythonic-matlab/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mendicantbug.com/2008/05/15/pythonic-matlab/#comment-1054 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:26:17 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-1054 I’m an ex-Matlab-user and an happy Python user. I think the difference between Matlab and Python is like between a Fiat 500 and a Ferrari…
Basically, I can’t think of anything that can be done in Matlab which cannot be done more elegantly in Python! And Python is a fully fledged programming language, not just to manipulate matrices.
My 2 cents!
Lorenzo

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2008/05/15/pythonic-matlab/#comment-914 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:10:05 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-914 The function_handle M-file in my Matlab is dated 2004, and mentions R12 in the backward compatibility section, so it’s been around for a while at least. I do agree that Matlab has some poorly advertised but useful language features (I didn’t know about function handles last year, so I was using inline functions instead) that make the language more tolerable. Still, working with it makes me want to stab my eyes out sometimes.

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2008/05/15/pythonic-matlab/#comment-828 Mon, 19 May 2008 22:44:06 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-828 Yeah I’m talking more about the features in the languages rather than the languages themselves. When did they introduce function handles, subfunctions, and the like?

]]> http://mendicantbug.com/2008/05/15/pythonic-matlab/#comment-827 Mon, 19 May 2008 21:34:46 +0000 http://ealdent.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-827 Matlab came much before Python.

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