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Why use numpy rather than IDL, MATLAB, Octave, or Yorick?

April 26, 2017IDL MATLAB numpy Octave yorick

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Why use numpy rather than IDL, MATLAB, Octave, or Yorick?

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As always, you should choose the programming tools that suit your problem and your environment. Advantages many people cite are that it is open-source, it doesn’t cost anything, it uses the general-purpose language python rather than a sui generis programming language, and it is relatively easy to connect existing C and FORTRAN code to the python interpreter.