From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 13 22:00:36 2000 Subject: Re: some thoughts about the future of Octave From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Cardoso To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:05:47 +0000 "John A. Turner" wrote: > > >>>>> "JC" == Cardoso : > > JC> John Eaton has always been concerned with both the code "quality" and > JC> the code correcteness. In my opinion, this approach has keep away from > JC> Octave many potential developers. > > I'm not sure what you mean by this, but I would hope that any potential > developers *not* concerned with code quality and correctness *continue* to > stay away from the project While (numerical) code correctness is needed and a matter of concern, as previously stated by John Eaton some time ago about accepting and reviewing patches, "quality" is perhaps only meaningfull to computer scientists or programmers -- or does exists an ISO-xxx for assessing it? Numerical correctness, on the other side, puts an interesting question: who is competent to establish its correctness on others than everyday domains? As everything on life, one can be more conservative or permissive; what I said was that in my opinion, the border line was too much on the conservative side. But I guess that the only judge on what happened in this matter is John Eaton. Joao ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------