This is all very well but it comes from research involving Big Pharma products - bought and paid for!!! To test these new placebos we need some kind of control. Like, some kind of substance that has no effect on the patients so that we can use it to gauge the placebos agains......
Arse.
So they've included a widget to set the nice level, and it runs java (or similar) apps. News at 11....
my researcher friends routinely use Octave, perl, I know of R being used... Not sure about data recording programs though, perhaps that is more specialised (or I just never needed them in my field). LaTeX, as auxiliary software, is pretty standard for writing up papers.
Of course, since it's Turing-complete you could just use emacs for everything... or vi...
... as long as it begins with 5?
The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe. -- Chester Gould/Dick Tracy
