From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 28 09:51:41 1999
Subject: Re: An octave perl module?
From: Gordon Haverland <haverlan at agric dot gov dot ab dot ca>
To: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>
CC: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:51:16 -0700

Daniel Heiserer wrote:
> Gordon Haverland wrote:
> > Michael Preminger wrote:
> > >
> > > If I understand it correctly, Heisam wants to use Octave as a calculator
> > > for number crunching applications implemented  with scripts.
[...]
> > >
> > > Daniel Heiserer wrote:
> > > > Haisam K. Ido wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there an octave perl module?
> >
> > If a person wanted to call octave within perl, with the
> > octave environment active, you would probably need to
> > use the perl modules that act like expect.  Essentially
> > perl would be acting as a user, running octave via a
> > pty (pseudoterminal).
> 
> Well acoording to performance this is a horror i think.
> Using swig all octave-functions would be
> direct acessible objects inside perl.

Oh, no doubt performance would suck.  But somebody wanted
someone raised the issue of having the octave environment,
not just the number crunching libraries.  This is one way
to do it.

Gord.