Re: Octave in Universities

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Mar-2006, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

| I personally use matlab because of compatibility issues. Code developed 
| under octave is not completely compatible with matlab.

In what ways?  I think if you are careful (and it doesn't really
require that much work) you can write code for Octave that also works
without any changes in Matlab.  Yes, you are restricted to a subset of
the language, but I think it is still a useful subset.

| I would like to see a -matlab-compatible flag in octave. So that octave 
| behaves exactly like matlab when this flag is used.

So it would not allow double-quoted strings, # for comments, etc?
Even in .m files that are distributed with Octave?  Is that really
what you want?  And please don't even think about asking that the flag
only apply to user code -- what would that be, and how would you decide
what counts as user code?  More likely, Octave will continue to aim
for compatibility plus some extensions (but as I've explained many
times now, we have to be careful when designing extensions).

jwe



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