alphabetical list of Octave functions

[Bill Denney]

David Bateman wrote:
> Brian Kirklin wrote:
>   
>> As long as there are advantages to using Matlab over Octave there will 
>> always be people who use Matlab. In particular, you rarely have to worry 
>> about bugs when working with Matlab, there are significant speed 
>> advantages due to JIT compiling, the graphics end doesn't crash, and 
>> everything is well documented, etc.
>>     
> Ok the JIT and a large number of toolbox functions is a given for
> matlab, but I'd disagree on the issue of bugs.. I'd had a number of bugs
> in Matlab in the past and the response from their support was always
> along the lines of  "known bugs aren't bugs but rather are features".
> The classic one was "speye(n).^0" which I believe they finally fixed in
> 2007b even though I reported it 5 years ago. The only bug I've had to
> worry about in Octave recently have been ones that push the limits of
> the compatibility between Octave/Matlab with things like function
> handles defined in sub-functions.. Also having the Octave source means
> that any bugs I find I can and do fix myself rather than waiting on the
> whim of mathworks support staff to fix.
>   

I can ditto that about bugs-- I have submitted several matlab bugs over 
the years (about 5), and in every case the response was either silence, 
"why were you doing that?", or similar to the above (features, not 
bugs).  I've also crashed Matlab's graphics (causing matlab to 
disappear, not just give the "you should close matlab and contact 
mathworks" red errors with the stack trace).

Have a good day,

Bill