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Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by trutannus on Sunday June 06, 2021 @11:03AM (#27413663)
MATLAB, if you can get a license would likely be better. Name literally means "matrix lab". Has excellent matrix manipulation features.
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Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by blacktriangle on Sunday June 06, 2021 @05:16PM (#27416411)
And Octave(https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index) if you can't get a license.

I actually had one hectic weekend porting our whole departments MATLAB code over to Octave due to a hardware failure of our licensing server and some stonewalling from Mathworks, Octave is pretty close to fully MATLAB compatible.

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Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by trutannus on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:41PM (#27426369)
Worth a mention, but it's not comparable in terms of feature set and execution time, sadly. I'd love someone to come along and make a MATLAB (Modern Fortran) knockoff that kills MATLAB.
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