Octave is awesome. MATLAB can go die in a fire (purely for the reason of being non-free, otherwise it's great too). If there's one thing that Octave is absolut

Octave is awesome. MATLAB can go die in a fire (purely for the reason of being non-free, otherwise it's great too). If there's one thing that Octave is absolutely better than MATLAB is the alternative syntax for things like strings and ~=.