On 29/09/2011 16:30, Mark Everitt wrote:
In my opinion only one thing really needs to be addressed, and that's
interactive plotting. The bare-bones gnuplot window offers rotations and
little else right now, and that's a huge obstacle to the people I work with,
who use Matlab to plot data more often than any numerical tasks. Think
laboratory data, plotting of functions worked out on paper. These
individuals even enjoy playing and interacting with their data, and placing
labels etc. This is the number one reason that my peers give when I
suggest using Octave and it locks me into Matlab too.
I wouldn't go as far as saying "only one thing", but enhanced
graphics would go a long way to make Octave perfect.
And this big argument about Windows vs Linux is totally counter
productive!
As an after thought, I've installed QtOctave again on my Ubuntu
11.04 64bit as a new update is available. It works very well, so in
the mean time I am using it again, although I continuously find
myself in the command mode again.
Steph Bredenhann
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