Re: is octave slow and missing functions?

[David Bateman]

Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>> I got this response re. octave as alternative to matlab:
>>
>>     
>>> I should make a note about this; I use octave a lot at home as it's
>>> rather cheap (free). It can be an alternative in some instances but
>>> there are some limitations with it:
>>>       
>    ....
>   
>>> * there is no GUI (and the CLI lacks the very useful !-command)
>>>       
>
> Opinionated ignorance. Matlab uses ! for external shell commands, so
> for instance '!ls' prints the current directory listing. In Octave
> you'd just do 'ls'. I guess he has a point---Octave does lack the !
> command (nb, in Octave ! is the logical negation operator).
> _______________________________________________
>   

Tell them to use "system" instead that exists on both matlab and windows
and leave the "!" for its traditional use as the NOT operator....

D.

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