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<font face="Courier New">Wofai, Chinagorom, Apebo,<br>
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This is my answer to your three very similar questions:<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
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There are many other advantages, such as being natively multi
platform. Discovering them is fun, I promise.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Federico Miyara<br>
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