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Re: Starting using octave


From: Ross Vandegrift
Subject: Re: Starting using octave
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:47:14 -0500
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 03:54:08AM -0600, acoohdb wrote:
> There are a number of 'styles' for mathematical/numerical programs that
> I am familiar with. We have 'spreadsheet', and a variety of program
> styles. I am familiar with pascal (turbo), basic and assembler.

Octave is the interpreter - you use whatever editor you like to write
programs, and then you feed them into the interpreter.  You can also run
the interpreter interactivly and type the commands manually.

If you've ever used the command-line operation of Matlab, it behaves
exactly the same.

> I would expect all modern programs to have a full-blown editor included,

Why?  There's tons of really high-quality, freely available editors that
have lots of features for doing things like programming.  The numerical
computation environment is the interesting bit.

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