Re: Improved? FAQ (Was: Philosophy help.)

[Paul Kienzle]

I ported a portion of my signal processing toolbox to matlab a while back.
I wrote an awk script to automate the translation so that I could maintain
the two versions simultaneously.  See:
        http://users.powernet.co.uk/kienzle/octave/oct2mat.tar.gz
With a bit of care it worked well enough for my purposes.  It certainly
doesn't handle everything, though.

As part of the translation, it would convert lines of the form
        blah  #<oct
        #<mat blah
to lines of the form
        %<oct blah
        blah %<mat
so I didn't have to handle everything automatically.  

The other approach is to use 
    if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION') == 5
        blah
    else
        blah
    end
and leave everything in Matlab syntax.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:06:43PM -0700, Amie Tara Neff wrote:
> Easy to start a flame war around here. I thought
> it was clear that I wasn't trying to complain.
> Anyway, here's what I've learned;
> 
> (1) Octave is not a matlab clone. 
> 
> (2) For large projects it's probably not a good idea
> to have code that tries to run both in Octave
> and Matlab.
> 
> (3) For the foolhardy who are doggedly determined
> to do this anyway, Paul Kienzle has some software 
> at http://users.powernet.co.uk/kienzle/octave
> 
> To make this ironclad flameproof let me add that
> all three of these points make sense after
> reading John's replies. 
> 
> However, I believe it would be helpful for others less
> familiar with Octave internals to have this
> information in the FAQ section on porting from Matlab.
> I will take a stab at this myself and post the results. 
> 
> Regards,
> Doug 
> --
> Dr. Douglas Eck   www.idsia.ch/Šþdoug
> 
> 
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