[Scilab-users] (no subject)

[Heinz Nabielek]

On 10.01.2023, at 18:05, Federico Miyara <fmiyara at fceia.unr.edu.ar> wrote:
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> My knowledge of Matlab is freezed as of 2017, when I abandoned Matlab and embraced Scilab, so might be some of my comments are outdated  
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> It is free, open source software
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> No licenses that eventually expire
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> Strings are better handled. In Matlab you can check for equality only if their lengths are the same since they are just vectors of codes. In Scilab a string is a true type for supporting many operations in a more intuitive way.
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> Variable names support extended characters
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> You can extract components from the result of any function: y = fft(x)(1:5)
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> The same applies to any field of structure
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> It is mostly compatible with Matlab and you can automatically convert Matlab scripts to Scilab scripts, which allows to reuse Matlab code (it is not perfect and manual correction is needed)
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> Insanely powerful control of graphics.
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> Impressive community to help with any doubts.



150% agreed and confirmed
Heinz