Re: Octave and Database connectivity

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richard <richard <at> mail.sheugh.com> writes:

> I'd agree with the other posters comments. I presently use something 
> similar, but the program is written in perl, and this manages the 
> extraction of data from the database (postgres), writes this to a 
> file, then perl calls octave to read, process and return the data, and 
> perl then pushes the data back into the database. 

I have sometimes wished there was a way to embed matlab-ish code like you would
SQL in perl/ python/ ruby/ lua/ tcl/ groovy/ etc scripts.  ML is the closest I
have seen to real math, but not particularly great at anything else...