Re: Octave in Universities

[Quentin Spencer]

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
>
> > When I ask some feedback about Octave the complaints are always the 
> > same (the well known weaknesses of Octave)
> > -  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to 
> > avoid it as much as possible)
> >  
> Have you tried octave with texmacs? texmacs provides a reasonable GUI 
> for many that lack it (maxima, gnuplot, octave to name a few)!
>
> I personally use matlab because of compatibility issues. Code 
> developed under octave is not completely compatible with matlab. 
> Matlab compatibility is important as other people on the project are 
> not comfortable with octave or linux etc., So to make the 
> collaboration as easy as easy as possible, I settled on using matlab.
>
> But for personal purposes, I use octave.
>
> I would like to see a -matlab-compatible flag in octave. So that 
> octave behaves exactly like matlab when this flag is used.


I'm curious what compatibility issues you are talking about? There may 
be a few missing features or functions (like handle graphics), but as 
far as basic syntax, I don't think there are any incompatibilities. I 
have a pretty large code base of m-files that I use in my work that run 
in both environments. There are some things unique to Octave (like # 
comments, and operators like ++, +=, etc.) but if you avoid those, 
everything should work in Matlab.

-Quentin



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