RE: Vector Projection .m file

[Erickson, David]

Hello;

Thanks for the feedback.  I offered it based on the licence agreement, not 
based on relative value. Rules are rules.

As for your argument about the diminshed nature of certain mathematical 
functions, I agree. I can almost hear your smug pompousness. Why not get rid of 
acosh and atanh as well?  Given the fact no one uses those either....

Here are the facts: it's well written, well documented and small. Bigger 
functions are built on smaller ones no matter how superior or inferior you 
personally believe it's worth. Maybe you should read Eric Scott Raymond?   If 
you don't want it, fine, I won't waste my time offering to help it's not my 
job. 

I'll interpret this as Octave is disinterested in code offered up that improves 
the base despite the licence terms. So I won't worry about putting more useful 
functions into good order.

Thanks,

Dave

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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:25 AM
To: Erickson, David
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Subject: Re: Vector Projection .m file

On 12 June 2013 16:11, Erickson, David <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here is a vector projection .m file to compute the projection of x
> onto y.

Thanks. I don't mean to diminish the impact of your contribution, but
it is a fairly uncomplicated function, with no direct counterpart in
Matlab. The problem I see is that this doesn't add a whole lot of
value to Octave but raises our maintenance cost.

     Thus spake the master programmer,

          "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will
          have to be maintained."[1]

I do not want to be perceived as a cynical ogre, however. If someone
else truly values this contribution, we can incorporate it. Ideally,
this would go into our Agora website where minor user contributions
can go, but Agora isn't quite ready for this yet.[2]

> As it is derivative of your source code, it is returned to you under
> GPL 3.

I kind of want to incorporate this into our source code just so that
we may add The Queen of Canada to our list of contributors. :-)

- Jordi G. H.

[1] http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html#book5
[2] We have a GSoC student this summer helping us with it, hello
    Ahsan!.