Re: The fabled "Matlab compatibility"

[c.]

On 9 Nov 2012, at 09:15, Lukas Reichlin wrote:

> 
> On 09.11.2012, at 08:34, "c." <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 8 Nov 2012, at 23:08, address@hidden wrote:
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>>> What are some advantages of Octave over Matlab? I do have a small personal
>>> list, but I wonder if you can add to it:
>>> 
>>> 1)  Operators:  ++ , -- , += , -= , *= , /=
>>> 
>>> 2)  Using # for comments is nice IMO.
>>> 
>>> 3)  I like it as a console application (e.g. starts faster, clutters my
>>> screen less, etc).
>>> 
>>> 4) I do think it's important that it is Free Software.
>> 
>> Personally I'd also add:
>> 
>> 5) A very simple C++ API that allows to embed the Octave interpreter in your 
>> own stand-alone application
>> (That's obviusly a "corollary" of being Free)
>> 
>> 6) Broadcasting allows to write very clean code doing complex stuff with N-d 
>> arrays
>> 
>>> Does that more or less cover it, or did I miss something important?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel.
>> c.
> 
> 
> I use the following feature often in my code:
> 
> 7) Default arguments for functions, i.e.
> function ret = foobar (arg1 = "foo", arg2 = "bar")
> 
OH, Yes, and another one I forgot:

8) Indexing of expresions: A = B(1:5, 7:11)(1:11)(1:2:end) would never work in 
Matlab ...

> It simplifies my code considerably as it helps to avoid many if-else 
> constructs for input handling.
> 
> Lukas