Re: octave to matlab conversion

[Ben Barrowes]

I support octave. Additionally, I think that it is very worthwhile to 
aim for compatibility with ML. ML survives (and thrives) because it 
posesses advantages and capabilities over other languages that makes it 
a great environment to prototype, develope, design, and compute. While 
it is pricey, its advantages continue to be sufficient to justify the 
cost for many users. Octave has gained notoriety and a ready made user 
base due to its aim to be compatible with ML. At the same time, octave 
is not bound to be _only_ a ML compatible environment and does innovate 
in many ways beyond what ML provides. Abandoning ML compatibility is not 
something I would recommend.

bb

Zdenek Hurak wrote:

> I would like to express my support to John and others in that Octave is not
> to be regarded as a Matlab clone! 
>
> Well, it is quite obvious that this compatibility with 
> Matlab has earned quite a lot of users to Octave software, on the other
> hand, the whole project should evolve in its own direction now.  
>
> Otherwise, Octave will always be the second (or even worse), never being the
> one who brings innovation. Just the one who takes ideas from others... (I
> even find it a bit unfair to Matlab producers). A toy for students. 
>
> But this would be a pitty since I believe that Octave is perfectly prepared
> to be a versatile tool for innovation in scientific computing. 
>
> Scilab project has abandoned these requirements on compatibility with Matlab
> and I don't think it has brought any harm to them. They are free in their
> development of the whole system.
>
> Best regards from Prague,
> Zdenek Hurak
>
>
>
>
>
> Ben Barrowes wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Does anyone have a handy piece of code to convert octave-style m-files to
> > matlab-style m-files?
> >
> > This is becoming relevant as octave's source is many times used in a
> > matlab setting when one does not want to buy ML toolboxes, case in point,
> > the statistics or signal processing toolboxes. Or at times when
> > octave-style source is better/more available than the corresponding ML
> > source.
> >    
> [...]
>
>  



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