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From: | Javier Fernández |
Subject: | Re: How about an easter egg? |
Date: | Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:32:24 +0200 |
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From: Daniel Pfenniger<address@hidden> Subject: Re: How about an easter egg? Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote:I know Octave is serious business, but... I've been wanting an easter egg somewhere.... So I don't think the expected audience, typically scientists and engineers above 20-25, would consider Octave higher with such distractions. It might be otherwise with an audience of students (say in the age range 15-25).
MATLAB had a number of Easter Eggs, Google for: matlab easter egg. I get as ninth result a thread in MatlabCentral
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2001-what-matlab-easter-eggs-do-you-knowwhere the 4th user remarks that many of them no longer exist, and the ones that remain are more accurately described as demos. I witnessed the days when lala existed...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.matlab/browse_thread/thread/b460f5ce3a1b3e34/d73e2a7c052e6cef ... and people would consider an interlibrary loan for solving puzzle no. 1. There have been interesting surveys from say 1996 to 2005 approx, in c.s-s.m http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.matlab/search?hl=en&q=easter+egg&start=0&scoring=d&hl=en&Seems as if they have been progressively removed since then. LALA was noticed missing in 2001.
Possibly easter eggs belong to those times, but then I don't know why why has a Facebook page :-)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2242301810
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