I've been playing with matlab, and I'm liking it... the built in documentation on the language is actually excellent, and the language itself is pretty clean if you're used to java/c/algol type languages. I like especially the built in syntax for matrix and tensor operations, and the fact that operations corresponding to the various special syntaxes are just overrideable methods. But yes, from basic grammar to the fine points of matrix syntax, the built in help desk is the best place to start research, I think you might be surprised by how well written and organized things are; the must have spent mad cash on that.
As for clojure with matlab, you can compile java classes from matlab and use those in your clojure code, and similarly, java classes can be interfaced inside m-files. There's a useful tutorial on the first part which I followed and it was neat to see my clojure code spitting out 1000x1000 magic squares, but I haven't taken it further. You might look at Octave, which is an open source clone of matlab, but with nothing like simulink :/ . Still, for pretty involved number crunching and plotting, Octave can do what matlab can, and its language is similar (it might try to actually be compatible with m- files - I'm not sure about this). Anyways, there might be more free books about octave :) On Sep 11, 11:10 am, CuppoJava <patrickli_2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > Thanks for the link. I am interested in Mathematica, but for numerical > matrix crunching, I prefer Matlab. I just don't really get the > peculiarities of the syntax and am hoping there is a book out there > that explains it in a nice clean way. > -Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
