Re: alphabetical list of Octave functions

[Brian Kirklin]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 10/06/2008, gOS <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> >  simply because no one programming for my
> >  company should be using something that won't be present in Matlab.
> >     
>
> If only it were that nobody in your company should be using Matlab. :-/
>
> All this wasted effort on proprietary software for code that could
> just as easily be made free, when we as a numeric community obviously
> have the geekpower for it, and are already getting paid by employers
> and academic institutions.
>
> But I digress.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
>
>   
As long as there are advantages to using Matlab over Octave there will 
always be people who use Matlab. In particular, you rarely have to worry 
about bugs when working with Matlab, there are significant speed 
advantages due to JIT compiling, the graphics end doesn't crash, and 
everything is well documented, etc.

I love Octave, but its main advantage is that it is free, and for now it 
is still behind Matlab in a lot of the areas it needs to pick up on for 
a company to ever outright replace Matlab. That said, I will continue to 
use Octave because it is extremely powerful and useful, but its 
understandable that there are still Matlab users.