From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jul  3 14:02:15 2001
Subject: Re: RFC: Using Standard C++ library components in Octave
From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian dot org>
To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>, octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu,        Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 14:02:23 -0500


> I believe it will be beneficial in the long run to replace some/most of
> Octave's code with equivalent components in the C++ library, if possible.
[..]
> Is this something we want to do? 

Yes, I think we should. It will make maintaining, porting, extending, ... 
Octave easier in the long run.  Doing it incrementally as you suggested
is probably a good defensive approach.  

Dirk

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