Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

From: Kjetil Kjernsmo (kjetil_at_kjernsmo.net)
Date: 10/31/05

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:57:19 +0100

    On lørdag 29 oktober 2005, 17:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
    >   mathematics [ octave ]

    I'm, contrary to everybody else, going to comment just on this. My
    favorite here is without a doubt R. r-recommended in Debian and
    http://www.r-project.org/ on the web.

    It has some minimal, but very cool, OO concepts (as opposed to e.g. the
    proprietary IDL, which is supposed to be OO, but is (was) entirely
    misunderstood), and has a very straightforward mapping between math and
    code. E.g. for loops are unneeded in R, and that's actually a good
    thing.

    Highly recommended!

    Cheers,

    Kjetil 

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