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Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Matlab for control system design? by notaddicted on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:25PM (#824418)
Also look here for extra packages for octave: http://octave.sourceforge.net/
Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Matlab for control system design? by mechanician on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:29PM (#824428)
Thanks. Since I have started to learn Python (for a different application), is there any way to get these Matlab-like functions in Python?
Re:Ask HN: Alternative to Matlab for control system design? by gila on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:46PM (#824469)
have a look and see if scipy/numpy have what you want

matplotlib comes pretty close to the nice plots if you need those