Depending on your needs, look at PDL.

Also, I can't say enough positive about R. It is free and will be fairly easy to pick up after using Matlab. The user community is FANTASTIC, an important aspect of anyone on a budget and in a rush. It is not at all unusual to write to the R-help email list (about 2000 posts/month) and get several replies within minutes. I work next to a Matlab user of many years and have the option of using it anytime I like, but largely because of its open-source nature and user community, I continue to use R. As for functionality, it lacks nothing next to Matlab and does have some nice features for working with perl (RSperl, Statistics::R). Finally, it is available as a binary for Windows.

Just my biased 2-cents worth.

Sean

In reply to Re: Matlab, Perl, and Python by srdst13
in thread Matlab, Perl, and Python by DrGuy

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