From help-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 15 18:13:06 2005
Subject: Re: matching command
From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>
To: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
cc: Shai Ayal <shaia at biocontrol dot co dot il>, Help-Octave List <help@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:04:55 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:55:44PM +0200, Shai Ayal wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure there are many other examples. IMHO Octave should strive to be 
>> better than matlab, not just a clone
>
> While I share your sentiments, I believe it's a design decision that's 
> been taken?  Octave aims to be compatible with MATLAB, wherever 
> possible.


I think we should strive for "unidirectional compatibility" such that 
Octave can run *any* MATLAB code (rendering MATLAB unnecessary) but MATLAB 
might not be able to run all Octave code.  This allows us to have both 
compatibility and superiority.

Mike



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