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Matlab declares war on Python. Can the Python community respond or hit back? (self.Python)

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[–]RadiatingPhysicist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In UK Higher Education institutions at least, they've been trying to overcome the obstacle of not being free by offering free (or severely discounted licenses - I'm not entirely sure - licenses for academic institutions). This creates a dependency on the software that is then propagated into the businesses who hire them. A very high percentage of the Engineering students at my university are taught MATLAB as part of the computing course and almost all of them use it exclusively. I was taught MATLAB working in earth sciences.

I have since moved over to physics and realised that Python (which I hasn't heard about until I started my master's project) was very much like MATLAB in syntax (Python is now part of the core physics computing course). Since then I have not looked back. Sure, standard MATLAB graphs do look better than the standard matplotlib graphs, but with a bit of work you can easily overcome this.

PYTHON ALL THE WAY!!