Talk:GNU Octave
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[edit] Naming
Does anyone know for sure if the person Octave is named after is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Levenspiel ?
I think so. Prof Octave Levenspiel is a famous expert in Chemical Reaction Engineering and had written a well-know book on it.
All of these info is in accord with the message about naming in Octave's manual:
Virtually everyone thinks that the name Octave has something to do with music, but it is actually the name of a former
professor of mine who wrote a famous textbook on chemical reaction engineering, and who was also well known for his ability
to do quick `back of the envelope' calculations. We hope that this software will make it possible for many people to do more
ambitious computations just as easily.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Preface.html#Preface. --realwhz —Preceding unsigned comment added by Realwhz (talk • contribs) 18:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Comparison with MatLab
Could someone please expand this article with more details about its relation with matlab? Thanks 70.93.249.46 07:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
"The differences between Octave and MATLAB are usually because the authors of Octave decided on a better and subjective implementation than the way MATLAB does it, and so introduced "user preference variables" so as to allow the user to customize Octave's behavior to be either MATLAB-compatible or to use Octave's new features." -Terrible Sentence. Plus, it's very non-neutral! Danielfranciscook 20:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, like other MATLAB clones such as Sysquake and O-Matrix, Octave trails behind. Features like objects (MATLAB 5) and anonymous functions (MATLAB 7) aren't implemented yet. But as the article says, at least for mathematics, it's easy to develop code compatible with both. Engelec 15:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
How do octave and matlab compare in terms of performance? Mathmo Talk 01:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Matlab is obviously faster, but the exact ratio depends on the code. 88.232.41.236 (talk) 21:03, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Screenshot
Wouldn't an actual screenshot be more informative than just some random graph? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.50.110 (talk) 16:58, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Screenshots of command line programs tend to be boring. There don't seem to be any screenshots on the octave website & the article about gnuplot doesn't show a screenshot. There are various frontends to Octave, but I don't know if there's a reason to pick a particular one for a screenshot unless that frontend is particularly notable. --19:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
