Re: [Maxima] Computational Engineering w/Maxima

[Przemek Klosowski]

There was a discussion of numerical capabilities on the maxima list 
where someone panned Octave. I asked what was their main issue, and they 
said this:

> It is precisely on sophisticated numerical libraries that i found
> octave severely lacking. For example for solving differential
> equations with boundary values, scilab has colnew (bvode), matlab has
> something equivalent, but at the time octave had nothing (maxima also
> has colnew nowadays). Maybe the situation has changed, but when i
> looked octave had only the most elementary stuff (it was many years
> ago). For the most interesting stuff (e.g. numerically solving PDEs)
> i think only matlab is adequate, or even has something.

I know little about solving differential equations so I thought I'll 
pass this on to you---does Octave have similar capabilities by now?