


10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons it Doesn’t).That's the sort of thing I want to learn anyway. Since I'm primarily using this to learn and practice signal processing, I don't consider it a problem that I have to contribute documentation ( old vs new) or improvements myself.
#SCILAB VS OCTAVE FREE#
It's free and open-source, and actively developed, and you can contribute easily just by pushing "Edit" on Github. Lots of functions from Octave/Matlab don't exist yet in SciPy, and can't be directly translated from Octave because of GPL vs BSD licensingīut I still prefer SciPy, because the language is much nicer to use, and does most of what I need.Doesn't support filters in second-order-sections representation.Other functions like freqs only accept tf representation, which, again, causes numerical error problems.Filter design tools convert to transfer function representation internally, so higher-order filters suffer from numerical error problems.Matlab, perhaps more detailed information or links could be edited into this answer. Documentation is poor or non-existent for many functions If someone does google and find good benchmarks for Octave vs.I am mainly focused on Signal Processing, Audio, Acoustics kind of computing. Octave and SciPy are free, Matlab is very not free. Octave also has more complete scientific tools than Python, and is a closer language to Matlab if you're already familiar with it, but also shares the language's flaws. In short: Python is a much better language than Matlab, and has more complete general-language features, but Matlab has a more complete set of scientific computing tools than Python.
