From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Dec 10 21:56:33 2000
Subject: Re: The future of Octave
From: "Jonathan C. Webster" <jwebster03 at snet dot net>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:54:42 -0500

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Hi John,

A big thank you to you and to  the other folk that have contributed to
Octave.

As to the future of Octave, let me mention  two of its features  that I use
often:

Octave can be started with the name of a script file to run. Then, at least
on a UNIX type  box ( Linux) , that can be put in the background.  I would
hate to have the GUI  enthusiasm  spoil that ability.  Read that as "The
computer can do the work while I do something else."

It's nice still to be able to pass -mat-binary files to other people working
on the same project who DID go out and buy MatLab.

As to a wish list:   Multi dimension arrays  and generalized transpose of
those arrays.

Regards,
Jonathan

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