Re: Practice Octave online on any website.

[Martin Helm]

Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010 00:43:13 schrieb Warren Henning:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> > I doubt you'll find. Allowing to run Octave remotely means allowing to
> > grind the server to a halt - imagine one calls Octave in a manner which
> > requires too much memory, or on calls 'system' from Octave and does what
> > he/she likes within the limits of his/her user ID privileges.
> 
> Incorrect. As other websites for general purpose languages like Ruby (
> http://tryruby.org/ ) and Scala ( http://www.simplyscala.com/ ) show,
> you just place the process in a resource-limited jail where people
> can't do things like system("rm -rf /").
> 
> A "Try Octave" website sounds like a fun project to do.
> 
> Warren
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There was a thread some time ago

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Sharing-scripts-td1631350.html#a1631350

and a web site where one can try octave

http://www.mathcloud.se/

- mh