Re: Matlab quirks

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Mar-2012, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

| On 03/27/2012 02:19 AM, ahowe42 wrote:
| 
|     Miguel
| 
|     Your comments about students converting from MATLAB to octave are
|     interesting.  I have an acquaintance on the Mathworks development team, 
and
|     recently asked him about the challenge from octave.  He basically said it
|     wasn't a concern.  In general, how many students a year would you say you
|     see convert to octave?
| 
|     Andrew
| 
| The recent Stanford free web-based machine learning course converted about
| 100,000 students. Seems like a start.  Even Stanford cannot afford Matlab
| licenses for students.  This may be a reason why the Mathworks is "not
| concerned."

I don't like to focus on price, but hey, Matlab is definitely software
for the one percent.

jwe