Re: Starting using octave

[robert Macy]

Agree wholeheartedly with many of the comments of the first
author, especially concerning his "initial" frustration.  

As far as any requirement for octave to contain an editor,
you're right - no need.  With the line editor function more
of a tease than a function, for simplicity during
interactive programming, I use Notepad to create and modify
script files.  

However, even with my experience in Basic, Fortran, C,
Pascal I too had a very frustrating initial learning curve.
 

Just a simple list of "how to" step by step instructions
would have been greatly appreciated. A little more
attention toward the creation of the manual and having the
manual contain examples would have helped.  

However, once through the initial hazing phase I am very
satisfied with the power and robustness of octave, not to
mention the *excellent* customer service one gets here in
the help group.  

             - Robert -

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:47:14 -0500
 Ross Vandegrift <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Ross Vandegrift
> address@hidden
> 
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