[Scilab-users] QUESTION

[Federico Miyara]

Wofai, Chinagorom, Apebo,

This is my answer to your three very similar questions:

The most striking advantage is that Scilab is free (in both senses) and 
open source, and this goes along with a superb support system where many 
users and even developers can help you with almost no delay. You can 
easily report and discuss bugs, propose new features or improvements 
with the confidence that if your proposal is reasonble and interesting, 
you'll be heard. And if you are knowledgeable at application 
programming, you can even become a developer. You'll never have this 
opportunity in Matlab without becoming an employee and signing heavily 
restrictive non-disclosure agreements.

You'll never experience with Scilab what many of former Matlab users 
have suffered or will eventually suffer: a nasty notice that the license 
is about to expire.

Another valuable feature is how it handles strings. In Matlab a string 
is an ASCII vector, so you can compare "hello" with "world" to conclude 
they are different but you cannot compare "hello" with "Lucy" because in 
this case they are vectors of different length and you get an error 
message. In Scilab you can compare a word with a novel since both are 
scalar strings, a type in its own right.

There are many other advantages, such as being natively multi platform. 
Discovering them is fun, I promise.

Regards,

Federico Miyara


On 13/11/2019 07:46, Wofai Ewa wrote:
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