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Re: octave to matlab conversion
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Ben Barrowes |
Subject: |
Re: octave to matlab conversion |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:45:47 -0500 |
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On Monday 07 November 2005 10:01 am, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 7-Nov-2005, Ben Barrowes wrote:
>
> | With this conversion function, I am thinking to include directories
> | which would include every m-file that comes with octave and
> | octave-forge.
>
> You are free to do this if you wish, but why? One of the goals of
> Octave is to provide a free alternative to Matlab. It is not intended
> to provide improvements to the proprietary Matlab. So I would ask
> that you consider why you would want to help improve a proprietary
> system rather than improve the free alternative. Maybe you believe
> that by making this software available, you are helping Octave. But
> if so, can you explain how?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>
>
While I appreciate octave and support when I can, I myself and many of my
colleagues continue
to use ML for various reasons. There are times, however, when one would like to
use some of
the octave-style functions from ML, many times to avoid buying extra toolboxes.
Thus this converter.
bb
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