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Re: matlab and octave


From: Geraint Paul Bevan
Subject: Re: matlab and octave
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:22:14 +0000
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David Bateman wrote:

| Is there something else that can even parse dot-m files than Matlab and
| Octave? Why can't we just assume if its not octave, its matlab.

There are some other tools listed at
http://www.mathtools.net/MATLAB/Interpreters/index.html 

I'm sure there are others and more will appear in the future no doubt.


| Why do we need Mathworks consent in this case, unless they create an
| inbuilt variable OCTAVE_VERSION just to annoy octave users.

We don't *need* their consent, but a standard way of determining what
program is running could make it easier to port scripts between tools,
thus expanding the capabilities of everyone who uses any of them.


- --
Geraint Bevan
http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/~gbevan

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