Appendix C
The chapter details the evolution and characteristics of MATLAB, highlighting its strengths, weaknesses, and competition in the scientific computing landscape. MATLAB, developed initially in the 1970s, succeeded by leveraging FORTRAN subroutines and has seen significant advancement over the years. Despite its ease of use and optimized performance for matrix operations, MATLAB faces competition from various other programming tools that cater to both numerical and symbolic computation tasks.
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What we have learnt
- MATLAB was primarily developed by Cleve Moler and has evolved since the 1970s.
- It is particularly strong in numerical analysis and matrix operations but is not a general-purpose programming language.
- Competing tools like Mathematica, Scilab, and GNU Octave offer benefits in symbolic manipulation and computing.
Key Concepts
- -- MATLAB
- A high-level programming language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming.
- -- LINPACK
- A software package for numerical linear algebra that influenced the development of MATLAB.
- -- LAPACK
- An advanced software library designed to supersede LINPACK and EISPACK for linear algebra tasks.
- -- Scilab
- An open-source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment.
- -- Mathematica
- A computational software program used for symbolic computation, with superior capabilities in this area compared to MATLAB.
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