| Walt Mankowski on 30 Jul 2007 22:36:20 -0000 |
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I hate matlab, but I hate octave even more. If you stick to basic matrix operations -- multiplication, inverting, eigenvalues, etc. -- octave works fine. And it's so tempting -- it's free, I can run it locally instead of trying to run it through an X11 pipe off a server in the CS lab, and it doesn't have the annoying bloated java interface that matlab has. But if you think you can use octave as a complete substitute for matlab, you're going to be sorely disappointed. The problem's compatibility. The stuff that's been implemented in octave all seems to work great. It's just that there's so much in matlab that hasn't yet been implemented in octave. This ranges from matlab's big add-on toolkits (e.g. the PDE toolkit) to graphing options (octave uses gnuplot, so it can only do whatever gnuplot can do), to innumerable small commands. Time and again I've run across a command that can be called in, say, 5 different ways in matlab, but only 3 of those work in octave. And invariably I need one of those unimplemented options. I've tried at least a dozen times to use 3rd-party matlab code in octave, and every time about 95% of it works fine, but the other 5% hits some random incompatibility and so the whole thing dies. It's very frustrating. Walt On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:33:41PM -0400, Austin Murphy wrote: > Octave uses the same syntax and the same look and feel. It's worth > checking out. > http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ > > Austin > > On 7/30/07, Ron Kaye Jr <rekaye1005@verizon.net> wrote: > > is there an open source program > > equivalent to MATLAB? > > i am asking on behalf of one of our engineers. > > > > ron > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Attachment:
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