Re: struct weirdness

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 26 August 2012 11:36, Robert T. Short <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/26/2012 07:51 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>
>>> "Octave's intended audience generally are people who don't know any other
>>> programming language" -
>>> what, people doing scientific computations are computer languages
>>> illiterate ?
>>
>> Usually, yes.

> This is a little harsh.  Speaking for myself and many of my colleagues,
> MATLAB/octave is NOT the current tool of choice, but MATLAB has created an
> environment that we are stuck with.

Yes, but the reason we got stuck with this in the first place is that
most of us didn't know any better. The evolution of the Matlab
language is full of amateurish mistakes that no other commonly used
language I know of exhibits. Even ugly languages like C++ have an
evolution that makes sense and demonstrate that the designer wasn't
asleep at the wheel.

- Jordi G. H.