Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

[massimo s. <mas...@un...>]

Giorgio Luciano ha scritto:

> I'm aware that python/scipy were not started as a clone matlab (well 
> matlibplot was started as something similar ;)

Yes, matplotlib AFAIK wanted (and probably wants) to be something 
similar, and it's bad, because mpl is too good in itself to be forced to 
be just a matlab ripoff! :)

> and also that they should be taught as an language (and that's why I 
> prefer to use it an not to shol very useful programs like OCTAVE od 
> Scilab.. it's better for students to hava a curriculum with a true 
> programming language than with a metalanguage).

That's really good and I fully agree.

> I have to admit also that if someone there sooner or later would create 
> a workspace similar to matlab (with paste and copy, and more interactive 
> feature without tweaking too much) a lot more people would be glade to 
> replace their matlab with scipy/matplotlib.

A pythonic interacting environment IMHO should be a nice application in 
itself to write. It should have its own shell instead of relying on 
ipython (that is, it should not be a python shell, or a python shell 
*really* on steroids). I'd like to hear the pylab guys to know what they 
think.

m.

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