Re: Octave in Universities

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:

| -  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to avoid it as 
| much as possible)

In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
the GUI window.  So, when people are saying that they can't live
without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
familiar "Edit" button).  Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.

jwe



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