> Here at Ircam they mainly use Matlab, but unfortunately I'd have to be > naughty te get it running on my laptop at home. And I don't like that. So I'd > rather try to do the same stuff in Octave, which isn't straightforward.
Octave is almost as good as older versions of matlab (<= 5.0). The primary advantage of Matlab over Octave is the recent addition of "real programming features", e.g. cell arrays, better object support, java integration. However these days I recommend Python with Numeric/Scientific/SciPy extensions over Octave (and over Matlab). In addition to Python's unquestionably superior language support and library integration, Numeric offers some extra features such as typed matrices. (IIRC in Matlab/Octave all matrices are of type double). --andy ----------------------- Andrew W. Schmeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
