Re: Octave poster

[Fotios Kasolis]

> As a grump, I have a few complaints. Can you please write "C and C++"
> instead of "C/C++"? Although C++ is supposedly a superset of C, that's
> mostly marketing, and good C++ doesn't look very much like good C code
> at all, they really are different languages, with different habits. As
> someone who was raised on C++ but not C, the difference is very
> striking to me, and saying "C/C++" makes it sound like they're a
> single language or more closely related than they actually are.

That is more or less ok! (even if I m not convinced, the are blood related 
like mother to son)

> My other grumpy complaint is how you portray "commercial". Octave
> isn't necessarily uncommercial, and in fact, I think it could benefit
> a lot if we could commercialise it. Octave could also wear a suit and
> tie once in a while; we're not always unkempt smelly hippies. ;-) I
> think it would be better if you were just explicit and say "high
> compatibility with Matlab" instead of being euphemistic. The Octave
> homepage doesn't shy away from saying Matlab's name. I don't know what
> a proper icon would be, since perhaps there's a trademark problem if
> you use the Matlab logo.

I have no reason to advertise matlab in whatever I do (after all they do not 
pay me!). And as you say this kind of information exists in Octave's page 
(so we advertise matlab there for free?) ... they are going to simply click 
the info link right bottom and they are going to see it. After all I do not 
want to lose my right to complain when people send mails like "In matlab I 
do this, why it does not exist in Octave?".

Regarding the icon you got me wrong! it is Octave that wears a suit and tie 
;D.

> But that's just me. It's good work, and I think I speak for many of us
> when I say that I'm quite happy with the graphical design work you're
> doing for Octave.

Thanks! I m happy too!

> Btw, wanna get back on Agora? ;-)

Not yet (I think I reached the upper bound of efficiently absorbing 
information this period ;)

/Fotios