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We dropped MATLAB because the communal version refuses to work without internet connection (standard in the field) and we cannot afford a licence for all field laptops, where they will be used very little (but still to do things that need to be done).



So, what did you put in place? GNU Octave?


Python, mainly. Some people still use older R scripts. It's kind of hard to make people stick to the same language when there is no real common code base (we're scientists).




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