Re: [Swarm-Modelling] beginner part 2

[Steven H. Rogers]

I've found Python to be about the "friendliest" programming language for 
general purpose programs and there are many specialty packages available for 
it.  None specific to ABM, but SimPy is a good discrete event simulation 
toolkit and one user is doing epidemiological modeling, NumPy provides more 
general array handling functionality than Matlab, and SciPy addresses many 
classical scientific modeling issues.  There are some GIS packages as well, 
though I haven't looked at them.

hilit wrote:
> What do you think about writing an Individual based model in Matlab and 
> then integrating GIS with it through Idrisi?
>
> We had a doctoral student here in Zoology who did her re-introduction 
> model (of an endangered species) this way.
>
>  
>
> Again, all these questions stem from my quest after the "friendliest" 
> programming language.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hilit

Regards,
Steve