> The Matlab clones available (Octave) are generally unimpressive. I think this has to do with the big effort of copying Matlab and the need to develop the whol

> The Matlab clones available (Octave) are generally unimpressive. I think this has to do with the big effort of copying Matlab and the need to develop the whole tool stack (parser, interpreter, libraries). Contributors are hard to find Nah, we have no shortage of contributors: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/ http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/ http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/052cc933aea6/doc/interpreter/contributors.in http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/052cc933aea6/do...