Re: The future of Octave

[Alfredo Tomasini]

Michele wrote:

> >
> > > 4) Native high quality graphics:  I think the next project should draw its
> > > own graphics, and draw them well, instead of using an external program
> > > like gnu-plot.
> > >
>
> I don't think that this is a good idea.
> I prefer the Unix, Linux philosophy to have small programs that do
> different things.
>

I agreed.

I am using Octave since 96 and I used matlab before, I do not see the
compatibility
problem with matlab as a real issue.

I basic scripting is the almost similar and people that know matlab should 
easily
migrate
to octave, if they like it.

My feeling is, if you like octave make a effort to learn it as it is, otherwise
buy matlab.

GUI interface.

Spending resource on GUI is not something that a consider high priority. For
instance
a tools for symbolic analysis sound to me more interesting.

"interesting book"
In the Beginning was the Command Line

by Neal Stephenson

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/oped/virtual/stephenson_beginning.html

alfredo








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