Re: Octave on Reddit

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2010/9/29 Judd Storrs <address@hidden>:
> 2010/9/29 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
>> It's really sad to read the comments, though. Many suggest to use
>> other things instead of Octave, and many others say that Octave is
>> irreparably inferior as compared to Matlab.
>
> I think it's probably relevant that many commenters seem to be
> responding to a first exposure to Octave on Windows, which IMHO, does
> suck.

Do you think QtOctave can help with this perception? While I don't
think that QtOctave nor any other glorified terminal is inherently
useful, psychology can go a long way. At the moment, QtOctave is
teetering at the brink of abandonment, and I have half a mind to fork
it, based on the belief that Qt produces the most native-looking
cross-platform look and feel.

Something really has to be done about communicating via pipes with
Octave, though, something more like what OctaveDE does.

- Jordi G. H.