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and the nice thing about Octave is that it's largely Matlab-compatible, so all your knowledge of programming Matlab doesn't go wasted.
by aggieben 18y ago
and the nice thing about Octave is that it's largely Matlab-compatible, so all your knowledge of programming Matlab doesn't go wasted.
- apgwoz 18y agoA few years ago, I was doing research work with MatLab and there were tons of licensing issues at the university I was working with. I suggested we abandon MatLab and adopt Octave only to receive responses such as: "It's open source software, which means it's largely unfinished and you can't guarantee that all the math routines are actually doing the right thing." I eventually had to give in because my advisor was getting annoyed (and his grant was paying my rent), but the point is that it's unfortunate that _more_ really intelligent people don't contribute to Octave, verify it's correctness and talk it up. Please don't misconstrue my statement as saying "the people working on Octave aren't really intelligent," but having the support of _lots_ of really intelligent people is the only way that it's going to make any significant impact on the scientific research community.
- nertzy 18y ago"It's open source software, which means it's largely unfinished and you can't guarantee that all the math routines are actually doing the right thing." Um... I think you have a better chance of guaranteeing a routine works when you can inspect what it's actually doing below the hood. Something like MATLAB is based completely on trust (albeit, deservedly).