MATLAB

Huge update! The new graphics system is *finally* here after years of development, and it is a significant improvement in almost all ways. The object-oriented classdef mechanism got a huge boost too, as updating objects occurs "live". And *finally* the bugs with retina displays have been fixed. Github integration is cool. Lots of other nice changes in the toolboxes too, like statistics. As klunky as this language and environment can be, Matlab is still the best programming/analysis tool for fields like Neuroscientific research (Python is very slowly catching up...)

Well us Mac users have finally got clipboard vector graphics support in this release (nevertheless it is years after Windows supported this)!!! But they have made a huge regression in that 2013b is now not compatible with the retina MBP HiDPI mode, the whole UI and fonts are blurry, apparently this is because they stopped using Apple's Java and now bundle their own JRE -- what a mess!!!

MATLAB is a crappy language designed for crappy programmers.

The version released today is actually R2012b, not R2012a.

I found that for the average student, a very useful (and free) alternative is SciLab. It's feature rich, it's language is almost identical to MatLab, it's toolboxes are open source as is the program itself and it has a fairly robust community supporting it. I haven't used it professionally, but I would suspect it measures up quite nicely to MatLab in that respect as well, and it has enough similarities that making a transition to MatLab would be quick and painless.

good program, but way too expensive for students ...

The basic price of MATLAB is not unreasonable for a professional product, though some items which should in my opinion be included, are only available with the addition of toolboxes, which can cost more than the basic MATLAB. There is even a toolbox for curve fitting. A professional user could easily need to spend $15,000 to get all the toolboxes they need. Often one toolbox requires several others to be installed too. The price rockets up. The symbolic toolbox for MATLAB, adds symbolic capabilities, but it is clear this was not developed initially for MATLAB, but was sold as another product, and the company than acquired by Mathworks. It does not feel very nicely integrated into MATLAB, and although I have access to it, I soon gave up and use Mathematica when I want symbolic maths, as Mathematica is much stronger at symbolics. For numerical work, this is an industry standard and well worth learning to use well. But there are alternatives someone should consider 1) Octave is a free Clone. It is not 100% MATLAB compatible, but is quite close. However, from a students point of view, I'd rather learn MATLAB as that's what employers want. But if money is tight, Octave is a very viable alternative. 2) Sage - open source, and free, but too buggy. I would not trust any result from Sage. 3) Mathematica - more expensive, but more complete, but not as easy to use as MATLAB. There is a "home edition" of this too, which is excellent value for money if you want it for hobby use. 4) Maple - Like Mathematica, this is better at symbolics than MATLAB with the symbolic maths toolbox. But I feel Mathematica is better than Maple, so I don't really consider Maple worth bothering with. 5) R - for statistics this can't be beaten, and is free too.

Can you believe it, you've already finished C, think you can do Matlab?

The "Free demo" is only for registered users. Other people have to fill a detailed request. Then they are told that "A MathWorks representative will contact you to discuss your needs and provide access to trial software." I know what I need : a free demo not a discussant about my needs !

On this webiste under price (start page, price column) it says free, but the download link directs to Mathworks' website where they state that it's only a 15-day trial for free. And when you try to look up the price there's a login required. What the ...? I just wanted to know how much it is. Download of the trial also requires a login.

This software isn't for people looking for a shiny Cocoa-application. It's for people looking for a top-of-the-line mathematical and computational tool. I've yet to come across any software that can compare with Matlab in this regard, it's amazing. Its language is very easy to work with, well designed. People with limited programming experience should be able to pick it up easily. The built-in documentation is top class as well. I've compared it with Mathematica's documentation, and it blows it away. It's easy to search, comprehensive, and the examples work. Matlab makes it painfully easy to manipulate and visualize data, and run various experiments. Its full capabilities are rarely tapped, as it can even integrate with various other languages. If you're looking for a product that makes it easy to do hard things, look no further.

Among other things, R2008b makes Matlab an OS X package, so it looks like a "real" OS X application. "Value" (rating) is hard for me to judge because my university has a site license. While there are things to complain about, I for one am very pleased to have it on the Mac, and working quite well (albeit a little clunkily) for my needs.

Another suggestion is Octave. It's extremely close to Matlab (especially since version 3) and all the code I have written now runs in both. The best part is that it's free!

When is this going to be native? X Window is horribly slow.

If you are unhappy with Matlab or just looking for something simpler you may want to check out MathPad It's not really on the same scale as Matlab but it's free. It provides a language with array constructs and includes simple visualization. I find it surprisingly powerful and have used it for tasks that others have used Matlab for.

A company that sells a thousands dollars software with recurring fees should offer a product with thousands dollars quality, speed and user interface design, which obviously Mathworks isn't. Patching an X windows program to make it run poorly on the Mac platform is unacceptable. Open source developers do a better job for almost no money.

It is impossible to register to their site so I can download a trial. No matter what I do, it says I'm inputting wrong information. Programs that don't have easy access to their trial version (or try to spam your inbox with junk email by making you register your email address before you can download) automatically get 1-stars from me. That kind of thing just tells me that the authors are not interested in letting me peacefully try out the product, what they are interested in is collecting my contact information so they can send me crap I didn't ask for.

I have been using MatLab 6.5 with 10.3.5. I would say that MatLab 7 is actually quite an improvement. 6.5 used to crash from time to time. 7.0 is actually wonderfully stable and actually faster in my opinion. The graphical interface is much improved. I am glad that I moved to 7

I've been using MATLAB 6.5 for Linux. I like the technical aspects of it, but the interface implemented with Java is pretty primity, slow, and looking urgly. On Mac OS X 10.2, I just heard that it's even more terrible. The installation is complicated and the graphical user interface is pretty bad. Now I'm about to purchase MATLAB 7 for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. I can only hope that they improved the graphical user interface.

i have a problem whit th function dicominfo in the version 6.5 i can't read the header of this images ,only i can to show the image ... is there a solution for this prolem in this version?