Useful Software Worth Encountering

R, http://www.r-project.org/

Matlab, Ox, www.matlab.com

Eviews, Stata, www.eviews.com

Fortran, C++   http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-compilers/

Mathematica, Maple: http://www.wolfram.com/

- Compiled vs. interpreted

- Object-oriented vs. not

- High-level vs. low-level

- Numerical vs. symbolic

- Time-series vs. cross-section