Talk:GNU Octave
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Does anyone know for sure if the person Octave is named after is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Levenspiel ?
Could someone please expand this article with more details about its relation with matlab? Thanks 70.93.249.46 07:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
"The differences between Octave and MATLAB are usually because the authors of Octave decided on a better and subjective implementation than the way MATLAB does it, and so introduced "user preference variables" so as to allow the user to customize Octave's behavior to be either MATLAB-compatible or to use Octave's new features." -Terrible Sentence. Plus, it's very non-neutral! Danielfranciscook 20:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, like other MATLAB clones such as Sysquake and O-Matrix, Octave trails behind. Features like objects (MATLAB 5) and anonymous functions (MATLAB 7) aren't implemented yet. But as the article says, at least for mathematics, it's easy to develop code compatible with both. Engelec 15:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
