Prompted by this thread, I went to the (slight) hassle of compiling the latest octave (and installing the dependent libs along the way). What a pleasant surpris

Prompted by this thread, I went to the (slight) hassle of compiling the latest octave (and installing the dependent libs along the way). What a pleasant surprise! I remembered ancient versions (maybe v3?), and it was a (very) poor relative of matlab then. What change since! Nice GUI, editing, debugging, documentation - all under one roof. Looks perfectly adequate to me for anything really.