On 06/08/18 15:45, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On 06/08/18 15:26, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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On a similar note: one of the companies whose software scientists here
were using a lot (IDL is a product) changed hand several times, and
last owner changed licensing terms and stopped signing perpetual
licenses.
With perpetual license you were able to keep upgrading software during
support period, usually 1 year, and keep using last version later
forever only you are locked to that older version. They stopped signing
perpetual licenses, and made it "software for rent" with 1 year rent
term. When that happened I recommended all our people to avoid using
IDL in new projects (python was my recommendation as fair replacement -
just what I know, not that I consider it better than other
alternatives). As
a programmer (former I should say, as I don't put my dirty hands into
code lately, almost not) I wouldn't invest my time into mastering
something that I not necessarily will have access to at some point in a
future...
Yeah. We have a number of folks here using R, and fewer still using
Matlab.
Sounds like your former matlab users are happy with R (bad name, BTW,
try to search...). Thanks, I will know now what to mention as
alternative if it will be about matlab!
And it has heavy hooks for python. And it's open source. Matlab may have
more sophisticated tools, but....
I know about R, I set it up for those who asks, have it on main number
crunchers here. I just never played with it myself, and didn't have any
idea that matlab users may be happy about it. But now I know, thanks again!
Valeri
mark "now, there is the guy who runs R jobs on a server with
a ton of memory *and* to Tesla cards that run for,
literally, 2-3 *weeks*. Lotta data...."
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