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  1. MicroCal Origin (Pro) by sazim · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language?

    For all my scientific spreadsheeting purposes since 1995 or so, I have used Origin http://www.originlab.com/ . One problem is that it's only for MS Windows and doesn't run entirely correctly under Wine.

    Regarding in-built programming support, it started with a in-built interpreter for their own c-style scripting language "LabTalk" (it is still present in the Origin), but they now also implement a c-compiler of some sort (which I don't use much).

    I have found that it is very much a case of "the correct tool for the job". Origin is absolutely brilliant for processing large datasets and the graphing is fast and intuitive, but it is terrible for doing business-style spreadsheeting (such as storing student grades etc), for which I use LibreOffice or MS Excel.

  2. Origin by barlevg · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language?

    http://www.originlab.com/

    It's Windows only, but it plays well with Wine. Makes beautiful plots. AND can be scripted for in both a BASIC-like language and what they call "Origin C."

  3. Open Source or Proprietary? by nashv · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language?

    OpenSource: QTiplot http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html uses Python as its scriptiing language

    Prop: OriginPro http://www.originlab.com/ - can use C , LabsTalk and has its own C-based X-functions.

    Admittedly, they are geared towards scientific data analysis, but have powerful graphing and programming capabilities.

  4. Re:Relational Databases won't do! by toddestan · · Score: 1 · on How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data?

    Actually, Origin now supports reading from SQL (and Access) databases:
    http://www.originlab.com/index.aspx?go=Products/Origin/ImportingData/DatabaseAccess

    Excel also supports importing from SQL databases, though I don't know if it plays nicely with anything other than MSSQL.

  5. Re:Excel is *not* excellent by Lady+Jazzica · · Score: 1 · on OpenOffice Bloated?

    Here's a link: OriginLab

  6. Re:meh by infolib · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft FUD Machine Aims at OpenOffice.org

    what features is Excel's graphs missing, specifically?

    Histograms. At least I never figured out how to make them :-( Excel made me misinterpret my results (initially) because they were displayed in some strange bar diagram which was the best possible approximation to a proper histogram. It's probably nice for quarterly reports, but I'd prefer R for scientific work. (I've heard nice things about Origin as well)

    There was apparently some extra package one could purchase, but that was not possible. I may have overlooked something, but I searched around quite a bit, and it wasn't first time I used Excel.

  7. related to octave by Pauly · · Score: 2 · on Spreadsheets for Scientific Computing?
    Octave is primarily used as a plotting tool, no? If for you the answer is yes, than by all means check out Scigraphica. Scigraphica reminds me a great deal of the wonderful plotting packages like Stanford Graphics that I once used as a budding scientist. It claims to be aiming for the functionality of Microcal Origin. I can't speak for its spreadsheet capabilities, but its plotting capabilities have impressed me more than any other GPL equivalent.

  8. Scientific Spreadsheets by Dymaxion · · Score: 3, Informative · on Spreadsheets for Scientific Computing?

    You want a program like Origin -- a spreadsheet designed for scientific computing. While it's both very much not free and windows only, sometimes you just have to use the right tools for the job. A free or even just Un*x friendly replacement for Origin at its level of sophistication would be a very Good Thing. I'm hoping that there are other, similar software packages out there, but that's the one I'm most familiar with.