Re: Octave in Universities

[Matt Taylor]

> 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
>   


I have been using Octave almost exclusively.  But when I really get 
stuck, trying to debug some complex code, I use Matlab's graphical 
debugging mode to find my problem.  It is very convenient to be able to 
step through the code and evaluate individual expressions/check variable 
values.

Matt




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