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Re: Octave reputation
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David Bateman |
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Re: Octave reputation |
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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:44:36 +0200 |
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Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
> I was just talking to one of my professors about how much more
> wonderful Octave is compared to Matlab. And he made the following
> statements against octave:
>
> 1) Octave isn't developed any more.
> 2) Octave doesn't have any of the toolboxes that matlab has.
>
> Now both of these statements are completely wrong which I told him,
> but that's not the point. The point is that people (I've heard these
> arguments several times before) _think_ these statements are correct.
> I'm guessing that statement 1 is because there hasn't been a stable
> release in years. Octave 3.0 will fix that (yay!).
> I don't really know why Octave-forge is unknown.
> Anyway, I'm writing this mail to ask how we should avoid people
> making these statements in the future? The way I see it, we should
>
> 1) Have stable releases more often (after 3.0 of course).
> 2) Put more visible links to Octave-Forge on the Octave website.
>
> Anyway, I just want to let out some steam. I get really annoyed when
> people avoid Octave simply because of its reputation.
>
> Søren
>
These problems will be self-correcting with a larger number of Octave
users. I see the major brakes to a larger user base at the moment being
a good windows binary and better matlab compatible graphics, both of
which are being worked on.. I think its these rather than any "stable"
3.0 release that will impact the acceptance of Octave..
D.
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