From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Dec 10 18:29:05 2000 Subject: Re: The future of Octave From: Phil Cummins To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:55:58 +0900 Hello, I'm just a user of octave (not even the development version), but I felt I should also take the opportunity to thank John and and all the other people who have contributed to octave. It really has been an indispensable tool for me. I recommend it in a Linux course I give every year to seismologists from developing countries, whose institutes can barely afford computers, much less matlab. FWIW, I think it's probably right to concentrate on the mathematics, that's what's really important (to me, anyway). I do miss having a GUI and better graphics now and then. But surely the way to go is to provide interfaces to existing tools, as some people have suggested? The matlab compatibility is not such a big issue for me, but it has been nice to be able to easily port over some simple matlab scripts. (I realize it is a very big issue for some people and I sympathize, but I am just reporting my own experience here). Well, that's just me 2 cents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------