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Re: Matlab euphemisms in manual


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Matlab euphemisms in manual
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:37:58 -0500

On Jan 8, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> The manual has a few Matlab euphemisms like "alternative products to
> Octave" in the A.2 appendix. I find euphemisms a little silly, as if
> we were talking about Lord Voldemort or something. Can we remove them?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I see another example in 20.5 of doc/interpreter/octave.pdf

"Note that certain competing software does not strictly follow this principle 
and converts assumed zeros to numerical zeros in certain cases, while not doing 
so in other cases. As of today, there are no intentions to mimic such behavior 
in Octave."

I agree. Particularly since "Matlab" is mentioned in the manual on 34 different 
pages, the euphemisms do look silly.

Ben



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