From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Dec 8 13:55:32 2000 Subject: F**king matlab! From: Douglas Eck To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:52:06 -0700 Does the code have to fork to have matlab compatibility and next-generation growth? I don't think so. I agree with John that true compatibility is a myth... we'll always be chasing. But at the same time it is at least theoretically possible to have a matlab compatibity *layer* at some level in the code. I recommend that at the lowest level, the next generation GPL numerical analysis software pacakge make no attempt to be a matlab clone. *But* I recommend that it be desiged so that at a fairly low level, it can interpret code from other languages. Primarily matlab. This should free up those who want to build something cool while leaving the door open for matlab-like behavior. Problem is, I only passed graduate progamming languages at Indiana University because fellow-student Paul Kienzle basically gave me his homework. Ok not quite, but close. So this might be completely wrong. What do you think? Doug ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------