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Re: Octave in Universities


From: Henry F. Mollet
Subject: Re: Octave in Universities
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:19:07 -0800
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I was not clear. I meant that MATLAB has no GUI to speak of either. And
perhaps right or wrong, when I say GUI, I mean a menu driven program, which
help me to find what I need.
Henry


on 3/14/06 9:20 AM, Quentin Spencer at address@hidden wrote:

> Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
>> I tried MATLAB at the same time I've started using OCTAVE and noticed that
>> there was no GUI to speak of and continued using OCTAVE. Why is it so
>> difficult to provide a proper GUI or a combination of GUI and command line
>> interface (CLI). The people with good memory can use the much faster CLI,
>> others can use the GUI which will also write the commands to the CLI window
>> and now they can be used there and modified if necessary if one does not
>> want to go back to the GUI. I need a little help to get started with the CLI
>> each time. In particular, if my uses are weeks or months apart.
>> 
>> At one time we only had CLI, then came the Mac with a user-friedly GUI, then
>> came Windows copying the Mac GUI. Now OS X is Unix-based, a Terminal window
>> is available for most efficient use, and unfortunately I rarely remember the
>> commands. Octave is similar, I cannot remember the commands from one day to
>> the next, and have to look them up in the manual or using help each time.
>>  
>> 
> 
> Yes, but don't you have to do the same thing in the Matlab GUI when you
> forget the commands? I guess I agree with John on this--the GUI offers
> some nice features, and for many applications it helps quite a bit for
> beginners, but for Matlab/Octave, I don't see what difference a GUI
> makes for learning the language. If I recall correctly, Matlab didn't
> have a GUI until version 6 or so--maybe it's not an issue for me because
> I started using Octave before the Matlab GUI existed (and even then I
> found the early versions unstable, slow, and buggy on Windows, and ugly
> on Linux).
> 
> -Quentin
> 




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