Re: octave to matlab conversion

[Ben Barrowes]

On Monday 07 November 2005 10:01 am, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  7-Nov-2005, Ben Barrowes wrote:
> 
> | With this conversion function, I am thinking to include directories
> | which would include every m-file that comes with octave and
> | octave-forge.
> 
> You are free to do this if you wish, but why?  One of the goals of
> Octave is to provide a free alternative to Matlab.  It is not intended
> to provide improvements to the proprietary Matlab.  So I would ask
> that you consider why you would want to help improve a proprietary
> system rather than improve the free alternative.  Maybe you believe
> that by making this software available, you are helping Octave.  But
> if so, can you explain how?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
> 
> 

While I appreciate octave and support when I can, I myself and many of my 
colleagues continue
to use ML for various reasons. There are times, however, when one would like to 
use some of
the octave-style functions from ML, many times to avoid buying extra toolboxes.
Thus this converter.

bb




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