Scilab vs. Octave

[Arvid Rosén]

Hi!
I have been using booth Scilab and Octave for quite some time now and 
have some questions. For those of you not familiar with Scilab; it is 
just another Matlab clone, providing basicly the same functionallity as 
Octave.

I am not very fond of Scilab as a project. Bugs are not corrected the 
way they should and there is no active community as in the case of 
Octave. However, Scilab do have some strong points, namely:

1) Object orientation in scripts.
You can define new obejct types and overload functions operating on the 
objects. This is great! Can this be done in Octave? Is it planned for 
the future?

2) Somewhat easy user-interface scripting.
You can make scripts that bring up windows with sliders and buttons and 
such. These scripts are platform independent which is very usefull.
Is this easy to do using Octave? Can it be done?

Do you miss this functionality in octave? I do!
I would love to hear your comments and thoughts on this topic.

Cheers
Arvid Rosén



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