The article refers to octave
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/about.html
"There were still some people who said that we should just be using
Fortran instead, because it is the computer language of engineering,
but every time we had tried that, the students spent far too much time
trying to figure out why their Fortran code failed and not enough time
learning about chemical engineering. We believed that with an
interactive environment like Octave, most students would be able to
pick up the basics quickly, and begin using it confidently in just a
few hours."

2010/5/3 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>:
> MATLAB is one of the products my boss made me look at as an alternative to J.
>
> I just find it really wierd that a user needs an addon to do 64bit math with 
> it.
>
> The article is here:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/02/2038255/MATLAB-Cant-Manipulate-64-Bit-Integers
> http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=2629
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