Existing users, 
Matlab
Mathematical modeling software.
Version: 7.9
Amazing software
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: it_is_today Monday, November 26 2007 @ 03:29 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 6-12 months
Recommend Product: YES
Matlab, unlike Mathematica, has amazing documentation. It's programming language is also superior, and supports a more familiar C-like syntax that makes coding quick and easy. Even its source code editor is impressive, and again superior to that of Mathematica. While Mathematica does symbolic computation better than Matlab, it's in many ways irrelevant because many times even the examples in Mathematica's documentation will not run due to various syntax errors. In every other respect Matlab is a superior product to Mathematica, so for those students and researchers who are looking for a powerful math-related program, look no further than this. It is the best thing you can get probably on any platform, and certainly on OS X.
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Stupid - Paulo_G.P._535
MATLAB and Mathematica have to different public target. You can't compare them to each other.Wednesday, October 08 2008 @ 04:05 PM PDT
Stupid - zozette.milane
Your comment is stupid. It doesn't help. Read that : "Mathematica, unlike Matlab, has amazing documentation. It's programming language is also superior, and supports a more familiar lisp-like syntax that makes coding quick and easy. Even its source code editor is impressive, and again superior to that of Matlab. Mathematica does symbolic computation better than Matlab. In every other respect Mathematica is a superior product to Matlab, so for those students and researchers who are looking for a powerful math-related program, look no further than this. It is the best thing you can get probably on any platform, and certainly on OS X".It's certainly true, no ?
Matlab is the state of art for numeric computation. But there is many matlab-like programs for free (Octave, Scilab, Grace, etc.). Mathematica is also the state of art if you need to perform symbolic and numeric computation. In that field, there is nothing for free.
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