From help-request at octave dot org Tue Mar 14 09:07:05 2006
Subject: Re: Octave in Universities
From: kamaraju kusumanchi <raju dot mailinglists at gmail dot com>
To: help at octave dot org
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:02:21 -0500

Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:

>When I ask some feedback about Octave the complaints are always the same (the 
>well known weaknesses of Octave)
>-  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to avoid it as 
>much as possible)
>  
>
Have you tried octave with texmacs? texmacs provides a reasonable GUI 
for many that lack it (maxima, gnuplot, octave to name a few)!

I personally use matlab because of compatibility issues. Code developed 
under octave is not completely compatible with matlab. Matlab 
compatibility is important as other people on the project are not 
comfortable with octave or linux etc., So to make the collaboration as 
easy as easy as possible, I settled on using matlab.

But for personal purposes, I use octave.

I would like to see a -matlab-compatible flag in octave. So that octave 
behaves exactly like matlab when this flag is used.

regards
raju

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