Re: Octave's and Matlab's limitations

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: c. <address@hidden>
> To: Dimitri Maziuk <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Octave's and Matlab's limitations
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> 
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> Matlab has become a de-facto standard by providing an environment where it 
> is easy to implement complex numerical algortihms without much knowledge of 
> complex data structures. This ease of use did come at a cost but, on the 
> other 
> hand, it has facilitated the implementation of a huge amount of clever and 
> useful programs written by people who would not have taken the effort to do 
> so in a different language. 
>
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> c.
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The code is smart, the language is idiotic.

Writing in a more normal language the same code would be much easier.

I.e. I completely disagree with "who would not have taken the effort to do so 
in a different language".

Again, I am using Octave just because of packages, and I had to upgrade to 
newer Octave versions with the accompanying suffering (I was quite happy with 
3.0.5) because the packages started demanding it.

Hadn't it been for packages, I wouldn't have used Octave at all. My Perl + "C" 
combination covers practically all my needs; from curiosity and understanding 
of benefits of functional paradigm I would like to add OCaml to my toolbox.

Regards,
  Sergei.