On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 09:53:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > You might also see if Octave will satisfy your needs (it's a free package).
> > There's also something called "scilab" that was once in non-free, I don't
> > know if it is still there.
>
> Octave is quite good but unfortunately does not seem to be entirely
> source-code compatible, if you're trying to run pre-written stuff.
> I used it for my studies this semester and some supplied
> programs would not run without some fairly minor modifications.
But the modifications are very minor. I grabbed some quite complicated
econometric code for matlab (GMM code) and from what I can recall there
was one operator that was a little different and a function or two that
began with an f (as in fplot) that needed to be changed to g. Anyway, the
reason that I am writing this is to say if you do try octave, look into
the documentation for matlab compatibility. There is a list of options
that are suggested to be set that you should be aware of to give it the
look and feel of matlab. Cheers.
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