Re: Woctave-another gui front end

[Sergei Steshenko]

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> From: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> To: José Luis García Pallero <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>; Nicholas Jankowski 
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 4:48 PM
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> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: José Luis García Pallero <address@hidden>
>>  To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
>>  Cc: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>; Nicholas Jankowski 
> <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" 
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>>  Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 4:23 PM
>>  Subject: Re: Woctave-another gui front end
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>>  2012/12/5 Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>:
> [snip]
>>>   It makes no sense to service needs of such people. Scientific 
> calculations 
>>  require certain skill level; inability to learn a text editor and to work 
> with a 
>>  terminal emulator casts grave doubts the skill level is good enough.
>> 
>>  I do not agree with this. At a first level at the University I think
>>  its important to have a gui in order to facilitate the use of Octave.
>>  Think in people who now are not scientists but can be in a few years.
>>  If octave gui facilitates that scientists make plots with octave
>>  instead of matlab or ¡excel!, then octave gui is a very good thing
>> 
>>> 
>>>   ...
>>> 
>>>   A script can be written which starts, say, Notepad++ and the window 
> titles 
>>  will be "Enter your source here, Enter Octave commands here", 
> etc.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Regards,
>>>     Sergei.
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> Sorry, I don't agree with you.
> 
> Life in college should _not_ be easy. Students should _learn_ and make 
> _effort_.
> 
> I can post links showing abysmal state of US education, for example.
> 
> For starters, calculators should be prohibited from math lessons.
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> Regards,
>   Sergei.



And, of course: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-technology.html :

"Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it".


Regards,
  Sergei.



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