Para que é usado o Scilab?

What is difference between Matlab and Scilab?

What does Scilab stand for?

How do I use Scilab software?

Is Scilab as good as Matlab?

for example, consider I have a project fully written in "Matlab", and I want to convert it to "Scilab", is there a way to do? while keeping the correctness of the code.

how can i get information for what is scilab can do to what kind of engineering problems that i can solve by using scilab and where i can get the tutorial or guidebook

Is Scilab better than Matlab?

The question is about the future of scilab where in people can tend to expect for a variety of features which may be part of other tools suite currently available in the market or new features to be embedded in their future usage.

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