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Ditto. Irreplaceable tool!

Almost 3,000 pages of very useful info. Probably one of the most complete user manuals for a software package I've seen.

http://www.scilab.org/download/5.3.0/ma ... _en_US.pdf

Now if I can get the time to go through most of it

I don't think one has to spend the tons of money that MATLABS wants. Why? 99% of what it can do can be done by scilab which was developed in France and it is TOTALLY free. Download a copy and give it a try, you'll be surprised. And, this also is very appropriate, i.e., having this conversation in t...

Thank you very much for the informative response. I have a lot to learn :-) You are right, everyone seems to be gravitating towards MATLABS. I've used it a bit and it's a good tool, but it's not the swiss-army knife that everyone wants it to be. On top of that, it's a fairly expensive package, for w...

I know that in the old days, engineers used to use Fortran and Basic, 99% of the time, specially for developing complicated scientific program (I think Cobol was for business, but I am not sure). In any case, what is the preferred language nowdays? As I recall, 10+ years ago, everyone was raving abo...