Re: GNU Octave is "the GNU counterpart of Matlab" but above all Gnu Octave is Gnu Octave!!!

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Feb-2007, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:

| 2007/2/2, John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
| 
| OK I'll put that in the MATLAB wikibook.
| 
| >   GNU Octave is a system for numerical computations with a language
| >   that is mostly compatible with Matlab.
| 
| What about adding :
| 
| "That is to say, Octave can replace Matlab in most circumstances and
| for solving most of the problems solved with Matlab, with the same
| code."

Do you really think this is true?  What class of problems is included
in "most"?

I think statements like this (which I think is just a longer way of
saying "clone" while avoiding that word) leads people to believe that
Octave is 100% compatible when it is not, and when there are many
Matlab features that simply do not work with any version of Octave.

jwe