JSON vs. Python vs. Scilab vs. ZenScript Comparison Chart

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language. JSON is built on two structures: 1. A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. 2. An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence. These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form or another.

Numerical analysis or Scientific computing is the study of approximation techniques for numerically solving mathematical problems. Scilab provides graphics functions to visualize, annotate and export data and offers many ways to create and customize various types of plots and charts. Scilab is a high level programming language for scientific programming. It enables a rapid prototyping of algorithms, without having to deal with the complexity of other more low level programming language such as C and Fortran (memory management, variable definition). This is natively handled by Scilab, which results in a few lines of code for complex mathematical operations, where other languages would require much longer codes. It also comes with advanced data structure such as polynomials, matrices and graphic handles and provides an easily operable development environment.