Personally, I'd rather use Python with matplotlib when I need to plot stuff, but Octave is great if you have to deal with Matlab code!
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Matlab is also awful about licensing. I took a Matlab class in college and we used gnu octave instead of the real thing. Works just as good, it's just slightly different syntax.
Used it for a ML MOOC a long time ago. Switched to Python/Numpy for better general programming features. Numpy has pretty good syntax for matrix computation, IMO.
Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. Mostly due to the decline in Matlab.
yeah; python and numpy won the wars I guess.
It's easy to win a war when your enemy is strangling themselves to death.
GNU Octave is great when reviving old Matlab projects! I only wish for something similar to Simulink
See also https://maxima.sourceforge.io/
This was my go to software for experimenting with linear algebra etc. Haven't had the need recently though.