Why not use the same approach to port the full set of Matlab libraries to Octave? (or a open source language of your choice) Matlab manuals are public: it wou

Why not use the same approach to port the full set of Matlab libraries to Octave? (or a open source language of your choice) Matlab manuals are public: it would be clean room reverse engineering. (and many times, the appropriate bibliography of the underlying definitions of what is being implemented is listed on the manual page)