Here is a very short review.
In the documentation, it is warned that building from source is rather
difficult due to "esoteric dependencies". It is written in C++,
pretty well commented.
It is very much like IDL and matlab. From a very quick look, it seems
the strengths are numerical linear algebra and visualization. I am
not sure there is much functionality that is not included already in
numpy, scipy, and matplotlib, although it is well integrated. It
looks like support for MPI is being added, but the documentation
hasn't been written yet.
The documentation is quite good, hundreds of pages.
I get the sense that this is currently written almost entirely by one
person, Samit Basu. There is a Google group for freemat, and he/she
seems to respond pretty well to requests.
I guess that's all my impressions.
Marshall Hampton
On May 1, 11:25 pm, "William Stein" <wst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This GPL'd program called FreeMAT was mentioned in the recent slashdot thing
> on Mathematica 6.0:
>
> http://freemat.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> If anybody feels like trawling their site, trying out their program,
> etc., to check
> to see if FreeMat might have anything to offer SAGE, some sort of report to
> sage-devel would be very much welcome.
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://www.williamstein.org
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