Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

[Michael Dickens]

On May 9, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> Gnu Radio, to me, is a DSP engine that happens to live on a general-purpose 
> compute platform.

True.  But the GNU Radio model is build on data-flow, while the Octave model is 
not -- and, that might be a key difference.  People have grown, for better or 
worse, used to using the MATLAB / Octave script processing model -- which is 
buffer based instead of block based.  I don't see a need to change GNU Radio's 
model -- but rather to note that it is different from MATLAB / Octave & thus 
new(er) users need to think differently about how to write GNU Radio scripts.  
I doubt this difference in models makes any difference in adoption, but maybe 
it does? - MLD