Re: Octave reputation

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:44 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I was just talking to one of my professors about how much more
> > wonderful Octave is compared to Matlab. And he made the following
> > statements against octave:
> >
> > 1) Octave isn't developed any more.
> > 2) Octave doesn't have any of the toolboxes that matlab has.
> These problems will be self-correcting with a larger number of Octave 
> users. I see the major brakes to a larger user base at the moment 
> being a good windows binary and better matlab compatible graphics, 
> both of which are being worked on.. I think its these rather than any 
> "stable" 3.0 release that will impact the acceptance of Octave..

An ecosystem for contributed software will also help --- lots of stuff 
out there will work for octave with a little tweaking, and having an 
easy way to distribute it will be wonderful.  Thank you both for all 
your work on the package manager.

        - Paul