Talk:Scilab

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[edit] Subjective comments

The comments "documentation is far inferior" and "Matlab is far easier to learn than Scilab" do not seem to make justice to version 4 of Scilab, currently available. These comments seems biased to favor Matlab. I'll replace them with more objective versions. I have been using Scilab since Matlab decided not to release a version for WinXP64, and I have found Scilab superior to Matlab in its programming interface. Scilab is actually simpler to program than Matlab, and more flexible, making it better for many scientific purposes. Matlab beats Scilab in the amount of toolboxes, and performance is some scenarios; but Scilab beats Matlab in ease to produce large programs and the ability to distribute code with colaborators that belong to heterogeneous domains (Matlab is NOT readily available to everyone). After trying Scilab, there is no go back.

I agree that the previous version was bad, but the newer isn't better. Storing public function in separate files seems minor with respect to other features related to functions, such as visibility (public/private), subfunctions, anonymous functions, etc. Comments like "harder to implement", "more flexible", "easier to program" (contradictory but provided without details), "common myth", "that is not true", and "in fact" don't have their place here. Engelec 10:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)