Re: The fabled "Matlab compatibility"

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi Jordi,

On 8 November 2012 22:58, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

Octave is not meant to be "a Matlab clone", nor is it meant to be
"Matlab but without the price tag". Your students already know where
to get Matlab without the price tag. I doubt you will agree with me,
but I invite to show your students the improvements that Octave has
over the Matlab language. If you just show it to them as "Matlab
clone", they will not value it ...

What are some advantages of Octave over Matlab? I do have a small personal list, but I wonder if you can add to it:

1)  Operators:  ++ , -- , += , -= , *= , /=

2)  Using # for comments is nice IMO.

3)  I like it as a console application (e.g. starts faster, clutters my screen less, etc).

4) I do think it's important that it is Free Software.

Does that more or less cover it, or did I miss something important?

Cheers,

Daniel.

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