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Re: Octave in Universities
From: |
Keith Goodman |
Subject: |
Re: Octave in Universities |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:47:23 -0800 |
On 3/14/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
>
> | - No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to avoid it
> as
> | much as possible)
>
> In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
> even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
> anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
> least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
> the GUI window. So, when people are saying that they can't live
> without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
> few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
> familiar "Edit" button). Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.
It is encouraging to hear that so many people from so many disciplines
from so many countries use Octave. I had no idea.
This thread is the closest I've seen to a user survey. I don't think
this thread is the right place to tell the survey respondents that
they do not want a GUI.
But after hearing the lead developer of Octave suggest that an Octave
GUI is not needed, I think we should start a new thread on the GUI/CLI
religious debate.
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- Re: Octave in Universities, (continued)
- Re: Octave in Universities, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Bill Denney, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Henry F. Mollet, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Quentin Spencer, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Javier Arantegui, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Henry F. Mollet, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities,
Keith Goodman <=
- Re: Octave in Universities, Robert A. Macy, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Stefan de Konink, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Robert A. Macy, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/14
- GUI vs. CLI, Ron Crummett, 2006/03/15
- Re: GUI vs. CLI, Keith Goodman, 2006/03/15
- Re: GUI vs. CLI, Quentin Spencer, 2006/03/16
- Re: GUI vs. CLI, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/16
- Re: GUI vs. CLI, John Swensen, 2006/03/16
- Re: GUI vs. CLI, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/16