Octave presentation

[David Bateman]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Rubén Roa-Ureta <rroa at udec.cl> wrote:
>> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> if anyone is interested, I'm sharing a simple presentation that I'm
>>> going to use in my talk about Octave at Prague university.
>>> It is not intended to be a tutorial to Octave, but an informational
>>> intro about Octave and Free Software in general.
>>> Comments from anyone are welcome, as well as modifications or
>>> graphical adjustments.
>>> (PS: Yes, you may find it rather curt. I like minimalistic presentations.)
>>>
>> Very nice minimalistic presentation.
>> I think among the FOSS successes you have to mention R (www.r-project.org),
>> the statistical programming system. It has thousands of users and its
>> expanding.
> 
> Good idea - R is a great example, especially the analogy of S/R and
> Matlab/Octave.
> 
> 
>> Rubén
>>
> 
> 
> 

Yeah Right!!! Check the page http://www.r-project.org/contributors.html 
where you'll find the text

<quote>
R was inspired by the S environment which has been principally developed 
by John Chambers, with substantial input from Douglas Bates, Rick 
Becker, Bill Cleveland, Trevor Hastie, Daryl Pregibon and Allan Wilks. A 
special debt is owed to John Chambers who has graciously contributed 
advice and encouragement in the early days of R and later became a 
member of the core team.
</quote>

I'll believe the R/S vs Octave/Matlab thing when Cleve Moler contributes 
to Octave..

D.

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