Re: Requesting an Octave mentor

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Aug-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| Well, I was just trying to be funny,

And don't take my replies too seriously either.

| There's a lot of code duplication; but
| not trivial to eliminate; there's also much more macro usage than
| today's CS theorists could take,

And I'm in favor of trying to clean things up.  (If I weren't, would I
be trying to clean up the configure script now?)

| Combining macros and templates cleverly is particularly powerful.

Yes, I'd like to move in this direction where possible, but you are
right that it doesn't make sense to try to remove all macros.

jwe