Re: The future of Octave (Matlab)

[Michele]

Trond Eivind GlomsrØd wrote:
> 
> Michele <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Once and for all:
> >
> > Matlab is a software and Octave is another software.
> > So:  stop talking about compatibility between the two!!!!
> >
> > Why in Matlab mailing lists nobody talks about compatibility with
> > Octave?
> > Only cause Matlab is the leader and a lot of people think about Octave
> > as a clone of Matlab. And maybe they want Matlab for free?
> 
> Certainly. I started to use octave because it was a clone, back at the
> university (students could have the Windows version of matlab on their
> own PCs, but not the Linux version). If it wasn't mostly compatible,
> I wouldn't have cared about it. It also meant I could use
> documentation (books, papers made by the professors)

O.K. In this point your right.
But also the Octave documentation is not so bad.
So you can always read books and papers by prof. about Matlab and adapt
them to Octave if in something the two are different.

Sorry, maybe I'm confusing. I know that my english is not so well.


> 
> > I don't care about Matlab compatibility.
> 
> I did, and I still think it's important.
> 
> --


> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.
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