Re: matching command

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:55:44PM +0200, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> > I'm sure there are many other examples. IMHO Octave should strive to be 
> > better than matlab, not just a clone
>
> While I share your sentiments, I believe it's a design decision that's 
> been taken?  Octave aims to be compatible with MATLAB, wherever 
> possible.


I think we should strive for "unidirectional compatibility" such that 
Octave can run *any* MATLAB code (rendering MATLAB unnecessary) but MATLAB 
might not be able to run all Octave code.  This allows us to have both 
compatibility and superiority.

Mike



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