Alternatives
See also: list of numerical analysis software and comparison of numerical analysis softwareMATLAB has a number of competitors. Commercial competitors include Mathematica, Maple, NAG, and IDL. There are also free open source alternatives to MATLAB, in particular GNU Octave, FreeMat, and Scilab which are intended to be mostly compatible with the MATLAB language. Among other languages that treat arrays as basic entities (array programming languages) are APL and J, Fortran 90 and higher, as well as the statistical language S (the main implementations of S are S-PLUS and the popular open source language R). There are also several libraries to add similar functionality to existing languages, such as IT++ for C++, Perl Data Language for Perl, ScalaLab for Scala and SciPy together with NumPy and Matplotlib for Python.
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