Re: Octave's and Matlab's limitations

[Francesco Potortì]

>Though I agree with you that typically more than one language is
>necessary, there is _nothing_ Matlab/Octave can do and other language
>can't with the same ease or even easier and more elegantly and less
>bug-prone.

I think that the winning feature of Octave is the index notation and the
ease to access submatrices with a readable and intuitive syntax.  That
is, what is known as the Matlab index notation.  Are there any other
languages that allow such indexing power and clarity?

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