On 04/27/2012 05:59 PM, Nicholas Kormanik wrote:
“You might find it easier to use languages like Perl, Python, or Ruby…”
In a nutshell, which of these to start with? I’m totally clueless. And it all seems so daunting.
Yes, I’m a big user of little nifty tools/utilities you programmers put out, free to the world. It’s simply amazing what you programmers accomplish. I’m always searching the web to find new ones.
But it would be terrific to be able to do some of that myself – if I could find a good practical ‘tool’ to make my own little tools, to extemporaneously cobble together as needed.
Give Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) a try. It combines several open source libraries into a cohesive system, something like Mathematica. Version 5.0 will be released Real Soon Now.