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Re: The fabled "Matlab compatibility"


From: Laurent Hoeltgen
Subject: Re: The fabled "Matlab compatibility"
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:14:45 +0100
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On 09/11/12 08:34, c. wrote:

On 8 Nov 2012, at 23:08, address@hidden wrote:

What are some advantages of Octave over Matlab? I do have a small personal
list, but I wonder if you can add to it:

1)  Operators:  ++ , -- , += , -= , *= , /=

2)  Using # for comments is nice IMO.

3)  I like it as a console application (e.g. starts faster, clutters my
screen less, etc).

4) I do think it's important that it is Free Software.

Personally I'd also add:

5) A very simple C++ API that allows to embed the Octave interpreter in your 
own stand-alone application
(That's obviusly a "corollary" of being Free)

6) Broadcasting allows to write very clean code doing complex stuff with N-d 
arrays

Does that more or less cover it, or did I miss something important?

Cheers,
Daniel.
c.


Hi,

I love the fact that I can write stuff like

#! /usr/bin/octave

at the beginning of my scripts and have them run like standalone programs. I do almost all my system administration with octave scripts.

Regards,
Laurent


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