From help-request at octave dot org Fri Oct  7 19:09:38 2005
Subject: Re: octave to matlab conversion
From: Ben Barrowes <barrowes at alum dot mit dot edu>
To: z dot hurak at c-a-k dot cz
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:08:12 -0400

I support octave. Additionally, I think that it is very worthwhile to 
aim for compatibility with ML. ML survives (and thrives) because it 
posesses advantages and capabilities over other languages that makes it 
a great environment to prototype, develope, design, and compute. While 
it is pricey, its advantages continue to be sufficient to justify the 
cost for many users. Octave has gained notoriety and a ready made user 
base due to its aim to be compatible with ML. At the same time, octave 
is not bound to be _only_ a ML compatible environment and does innovate 
in many ways beyond what ML provides. Abandoning ML compatibility is not 
something I would recommend.

bb

Zdenek Hurak wrote:

>I would like to express my support to John and others in that Octave is not
>to be regarded as a Matlab clone! 
>
>Well, it is quite obvious that this compatibility with 
>Matlab has earned quite a lot of users to Octave software, on the other
>hand, the whole project should evolve in its own direction now.  
>
>Otherwise, Octave will always be the second (or even worse), never being the
>one who brings innovation. Just the one who takes ideas from others... (I
>even find it a bit unfair to Matlab producers). A toy for students. 
>
>But this would be a pitty since I believe that Octave is perfectly prepared
>to be a versatile tool for innovation in scientific computing. 
>
>Scilab project has abandoned these requirements on compatibility with Matlab
>and I don't think it has brought any harm to them. They are free in their
>development of the whole system.
>
>Best regards from Prague,
>Zdenek Hurak
>
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>Ben Barrowes wrote:
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>>Does anyone have a handy piece of code to convert octave-style m-files to
>>matlab-style m-files?
>>
>>This is becoming relevant as octave's source is many times used in a
>>matlab setting when one does not want to buy ML toolboxes, case in point,
>>the statistics or signal processing toolboxes. Or at times when
>>octave-style source is better/more available than the corresponding ML
>>source.
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