Re: Book project

[Levente Torok]

Not a very recommended way but I would probably use one of the matlab
books as a skeleton in order to help people convert their knowledge or
mature it similar to the case of matlab. Not because matlab (books)
is(are) superior or no-one has the ability to write as good book as it
is for matlab but we have to agree that most people think of octave as
a free alternative of matlab. So we can honestly and humbly taking
advantage of this belief.
On the other hand I would be very happy to have a book with complex examples.
I am also keen on seeing something about the object oriented part as
well as about the embedded C++ coding.
Any time I need to write an embedded octave function in C++ I am
facing with the lack of documentation (not autodoc generated stuff)
and/or useful examples so I usually find myself reading the source
code which is already a very complex and comprehensive.
So I would be grateful to have something easy to read about this or
some introductory to this.

Lev

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think it would be great to have books focused on Octave.  It doesn't
> matter that there are N books about Matlab.  I think it actually
> causes trouble for us when people use Octave but are reading books
> about Matlab because they inevitably run into incompatible behavior
> and the immediate reaction (based on what I see on the mailing lists
> and in bug reports) is that Octave sucks.  So having books that show
> Octave examples that actually work correctly in Octave should be a
> positive thing.
>
> jwe
>
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