Re: Octave in Universities

[Guillem Borrell Nogueras]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 16:22, John W. Eaton wrote:

> 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.

And it amuses me too!  But the average windows user, even engineers, will 
*always* use that "print" button in the plot window. I am not saying that 
Octave must change to fill their (sometimes stupid) needs.

I'ts the infamous "don't think, just click" plague. I felt it for the first 
time when I explained the "axis" command and one attendant suggested me that 
the optimal chioice was to use the matlab's zoom tool. Example: how many 
Windows users use the desktop calculator with the mouse instead of using the 
numeric keyboard?

guillem
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