Re: Octave in Universities

[Etienne Grossmann]

  Hi,

I adopted Matlab in 96, coming from C/C++ and Splus. In 97, I briefly
tested Octave, on my Debian laptop, but kept using Matlab at work. In
98, during my PhD, our Matlab license expired and the person
maintaining it was unjoinable on long vacations. In order to keep
working and to be sure this inconvenience wouldn't repeat itself, I
decided to port all my work to a freely available language.

  My choice boiled down to Octave and Scilab. A few language
advantages (iirc, the 'keyboard' function, variable length arg and
return lists), the GPL, and the feeling that Octave development was
more active and would better stand the test of time made me choose
Octave. I have used it for most of my work since then.

  Afaik, few of my present or past colleagues use Octave - except
perhaps Mai Zhou [1] at the math dept. of the U. of Kentucky, who
maintains a web interface [2]. I will ask for his comments.

  Hth,

  Etienne

[1] http://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai
[2] http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:02:27AM -0600, Larry Blodgett wrote:
# Recently spoke with a college prof who was using Matlab (edu version).
# I mentioned he might consider using octave since it was open source.
# He asked if there are many universities using octave. I said I would  
# check with the list.
# I was under the impression that there were numerous universities  
# using octave.
# 
# There may even be a list on the web of universities using octave.
# 
# If you know anything about this information let me know.
# 
# Larry Blodgett
# address@hidden
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