Scilab
Scilab is a numerical computation system similiar to Matlab or Simulink. Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions, and programs from various languages (such as C or Fortran) can be added interactively. It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, and linear systems), an interpreter, and a high-level programming language. Scilab has been designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and operations on these data types by using overloading. A number of toolboxes are available with the system.
| Tags | Scientific/Engineering education Mathematics Visualization Software Development Interpreters Compilers Text Editors Integrated Development Environments (IDE) |
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| Operating Systems | POSIX Windows |
Recent releases
- 14 Apr 2009 14:41
Changes: New localizations were added for German, Spanish, and others. A new module has been created to highlight the possibility to call the Scilab engine from other languages. See call_scilab. The help and test systems have been improved. A lot of bugs have been fixed.
- 12 Feb 2009 19:36
Changes: A lot of improvements in the graphics have been made. A huge number of bugs have been fixed. Some new functionality have been added. The documentation is now fully converted to DocBook. Scicos (the Simulink-like part) has improved.
- 07 Nov 2008 09:48
Changes: Various bugs have been corrected. Some corrected bugs are related to internationalization, others to Java.
- 29 Sep 2008 11:15
Changes: Some changes related to documentation were made. Some obsolete stuff has been removed. Some bugs have been corrected.
- 17 Sep 2008 18:17
Changes: Scilab is now OpenSource (under the CeCILL license). The GUI has been completely rewritten in Java. There is a new documentation viewer based upon DocBook. There are many other changes.
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Recent commentsGPL/LGPL soon
Probably, Scilab will soon be GPL/LGPL, although this is extra-official. Currently it is open-source but the commercial use of its modifications must be approved by the authors. This is the only difference of its license to the GPL. However, the original authors showed commitment to approve the use of all its sourcecode modifications. The license is not GPL due to an historical reason only, but in practice it can be considered GPL, and it certainly will soon be officially GPL (or LGPL).