Re: draft release announcement

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 02/09/2011 12:16 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

  GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended
  for numerical computations.  It provides a convenient command line
  interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and
  for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is
  mostly compatible with Matlab.  It may also be used as a
  batch-oriented language.

  -- 
  John W. Eaton

Slight tune-up:
  GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended
  for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical
  solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing
  other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics
  capabilities for data visualization and manipulation.  It is normally used
  through its interactive command line interface. The Octave language is
  quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable.
  A full description of Octave capabilities is available at <URL of
  the Manual?>.

Just a suggestion.  Use whatever, if any, pieces that you think are helpful.

Michael