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| Nasser Abbasi |
 Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:17 pm |
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"Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote in message
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Quote: As for Matlab/Mathematica, I know that at school, Matlab is much more
used
than Mathematica. Even in the Mathematics departments, Matlab is much
more
used than Mathematica. It seems Mathematica is more used in the physics
departments than elsewhere. Even though at my school we have Mathematica
installed on some PCs, I do not think I've seen any student using it so
far. All what I hear about at school is Matlab. Mathworks must be doing
something right :)
Thank you very much for replying.
I just want to add one more thing. I am in southern California, and this
area universities (we have about 8 large universites here and many smaller
ones) might be a bit biased in this sense towards Matlab. This area has a
concentration of some of the largest defense and aerospace companies, and
these companies live and breath Matlab and simulink, hence most schools here
want the students to use Matlab to make the local companies happy so they
can produce engineers and graduates who already have the skills that these
companies want today. Some other universities in the US or the world might
have different look at things.
What makes something more popular sometimes is weighted less by its
technical merits than by other factors. We are not trying here to compare
Mathematica and Matlab on technical issues here. I think both are powerful
systems, and each has its strong and weak points.
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| Nasser Abbasi |
| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:47 pm |
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"Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Nasser Abbasi wrote:
One nice thing with Matab, which neither Maple nor Mathematica has, is
that one can develop a complete application in Matlab and with a nice
user
interface Using Matlab GUIDE, and compile it to a standalone .exe, and
sell/distribute the .exe application, which can then be installed and run
on windows (or mac or linux depending) without the end user having to
have
Matlab at all. (they do not even have to know or care to know that the
app
was written in Matlab). The user does not need a license to run this app.
Very interesting.
oh, and I forgot to mention one more thing which might be an interest to
you. One can compile/depoly Matlab to .NET and Java platforms.
http://www.mathworks.com/products/netbuilder/
http://www.mathworks.com/products/javabuilder/
ps. I have not used the above products.
pps. I am not involved with Mathworks in any way, just thought you might
like to know about these since you mentioned you are doing .NET now.
hth
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| Jon Harrop |
| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 4:09 pm |
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Jon Harrop wrote:
Quote: Google trends shows a 2x reduction for Mathematica over the past 3 years,
for example:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=mathematica
Forcing our customers to subscribe to that trend at great expense does not
seem like a good idea.
Having read the Mathematica 6 propaganda, I really think this is going to
change for the better. Version 6 looks absolutely awesome! Now I'm
predicting improved sales for our existing Mathematica products. Better
hope its compatible... :-)
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
The F#.NET Journal
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