Mendapat informasi dari milist, Program Komputasi Numerik berbayar seperti Matlab dapat digantikan dengan program open-source seperti Scilab dan Octave. Saya sendiri baru menginstal, belum mencoba kedua program tersebut.
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Scilab is a numerical computational package developed since 1990 by researchers from the INRIA and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC). It is, since the creation of the Scilab consortium in may 2003, developed and maintained by the INRIA. It is a high level programming language in that most of its functionality is based around the ability to specify many computations with few lines of code. It does this primarily by abstracting primitive data types to functionally equivalent matrices.
It is similar in functionality to MATLAB, but is available for download at no cost. The program enables users to compute a wide range of mathematical operations from relatively simple operations such as multiplication to high level operations such as correlation and complex arithmetic. The software is often used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations etc. (Wikipedia)
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave’s own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.
GNU Octave is also freely redistributable software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Octave was written by John W. Eaton and many others. Because Octave is free software you are encouraged to help make Octave more useful by writing and contributing additional functions for it, and by reporting any problems you may have.


Tambahan Mas Ndung, selain Scilab dan Octave, Python saat ini juga semakin populer dalam scientific computing. Ada yg bilang Python ini menggantikan Fortran.
Info lebih jauh http://www.scipy.org/SciPy dan http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific
Thanks banyak Eka .. jadi nambah perbendaharaan lagi dech. Semoga bisa saling melengkapi, khususnya fungsi-fungsi built-in-nya sehingga tidak perlu membuat fungsi sendiri hehe
Terima kasih atas link-link nya yg bermanfaat. jadi pengen nyoba …
Terima kasih kembali Pak Hendra,
Saya juga baru mendapat informasi link-link tersebut Pak, langsung pengen nyoba.
Enggak ada waktu buat nyoba mas …
@ Harjo:
Hehe .. kalau kebetulan Mas Hari memerlukannya saja Mas.
Salam,
-Bandung.
sy ngak nyangka matlabs punya pengganti dan open source pula…keren
slam kenal mas yoanes,……..sya seorng mahasiswa…..yng merasa penasran….dengan bhsa pyton……kira2x…ada ga link yang memudahkan kita belajar mengenai fungsi2x bhsa python tapi bahsa indonesia…….
jujur aja..bagi saya seorang pemula…yang susah dalam python adalh bagaimana mengoptimasi fungsi yg di buat sendiri…….
mhon petunjuknya….