Octave review

[José Luis García Pallero]

Hello,
I think that you review is really nice. It would be a good idea to improve
the wikipedia article about GNU Octave with this contribution.

2009/2/7 Doug Stewart <dastew at sympatico.ca>

> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > It's come to my attention that a writeup of mine comes as the first
> > Google hit when looking for "octave review", so now I am starting to
> > feel more responsible for what I wrote in it.
> >
> > I rewrote it today updating what I know, but I know I probably have
> > some facts wrong, and I also probably neglected to mention other
> > important advantages and drawbacks of Octave as it currently stands.
> >
> > Although I wouldn't want to wikify it (I want to keep my voice in it,
> > as it has to be for a review) I am writing to request that anyone who
> > can point out omissions or improvements to it, please do so.
> >
> >
> some typos
>
> In the following  section  it should be     In there own words
>
> compatibility with Matlab. In the own words of the developers as seen in
> the mailing lists, Octave doesn't purport to be a bug-for-bug
> <
> http://www.everything2.com/title/imitation%2520is%2520the%2520highest%2520form%2520of%2520flattery
> >
> copy of Matlab, so things sometimes differ intentionally, but the grand
> eventual goal might be to make all the existing and vast codebase
> written for Matlab to work in Octave, today still not completely attained.
>
>
> Matlab codebase that has us gotten us into this fine mess to begin with.
> The Matlab users almost always
>
>
>
> and one addition:
> you say
> Octave in particular has nothing like Simulink
> <http://www.everything2.com/title/Simulink>, which I've never personally
> used but I understand is an important reason for the foothold Matlab has
> as a de-facto standard in the numeric community. I have also not heard
> of any attempts at making anything like Simulink for Octave.
>
> scilab  (  free software )  does have a "Simulink" compatable  package
> called scicos.
>
> see
> http://www.scilab.org/doc/scicos/index.html
>
>
> You could add this info to show that there is also a free replacement
> for simulink
>
> Doug Stewart
>
>
> > The review can be found here:
> >
> >      http://www.everything2.com/title/GNU+Octave
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Jordi G. H.
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