From help-request at octave dot org Tue Feb  8 00:02:31 2005
Subject: Re: 2 linear eq
From: "Paul Thomas" <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
To: "miguel manese" <jjonphl at gmail dot com>,         "Mike Miller" <mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu>
Cc: "shih lin" <shlinlin at 37 dot com>, "Help-Octave List" <help@octave.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:07:57 +0100

>> Is his "octave help"?  I think we can be friendly even when people ask
>> stupid questions.  Let's allow people who don't know any math and have
>> never used octave before to come here and ask questions.  Where else can
>> they go?  If they bug you, don't answer.

Exactly!  By the way, I think that we all forget, at our peril, the 
conceptual hump that we all got over with octave/matlab.  The conciseness of 
the language, which is so much its attraction, is very difficult for people 
that have no programming training or were brought up on fortran/C.  Looking 
back at my own notes, I am just embarrassed at my early attempts (- some say 
that I should still be embarrassed.....!).

Let's just get on with helping Shih Lin to where he wants to be.

Paul T 




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