BASIC vs. CVXOPT vs. DataMelt vs. Python Comparison Chart

BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. Initially, BASIC concentrated on supporting straightforward mathematical work, with matrix arithmetic support from its initial implementation as a batch language, and character string functionality being added by 1965. The emergence of BASIC took place as part of a wider movement towards time-sharing systems. Some dialects of BASIC supported matrices and matrix operations, which can be used to solve sets of simultaneous linear algebraic equations. These dialects would directly support matrix operations such as assignment, addition, multiplication (of compatible matrix types), and evaluation of a determinant. BASIC declined in popularity in the 1990s, as more powerful microcomputers came to market and programming languages with advanced features (such as Pascal and C) became tenable on such computers.

DataMelt (or "DMelt") is an environment for numeric computation, data analysis, data mining, computational statistics, and data visualization. DataMelt can be used to plot functions and data in 2D and 3D, perform statistical tests, data mining, numeric computations, function minimization, linear algebra, solving systems of linear and differential equations. Linear, non-linear and symbolic regression are also available. Neural networks and various data-manipulation methods are integrated using Java API. Elements of symbolic computations using Octave/Matlab scripting are supported. DataMelt is a computational environment for Java platform. It can be used with different programming languages on different operating systems. Unlike other statistical programs, it is not limited to a single programming language. This software combines the world's most-popular enterprise language, Java, with the most popular scripting language used in data science, such as Jython (Python), Groovy, JRuby.