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Re: Octave in Universities
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David Bateman |
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Re: Octave in Universities |
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Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:06:29 +0100 |
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Matt Taylor wrote:
>>
>> On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
>>
>> | - No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to
>> avoid it as | much as possible)
>>
>> In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
>> even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
>> anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
>> least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
>> the GUI window. So, when people are saying that they can't live
>> without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
>> few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
>> familiar "Edit" button). Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.
>>
>> jwe
>>
>
>
>
> I have been using Octave almost exclusively. But when I really get
> stuck, trying to debug some complex code, I use Matlab's graphical
> debugging mode to find my problem. It is very convenient to be able
> to step through the code and evaluate individual expressions/check
> variable values.
>
> Matt
>
Octave has an inbuilt debugger. Check the keyboard command and the
debug_on_error variable.
D.
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- Re: Octave in Universities, (continued)
- Re: Octave in Universities, Radu Prekup, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Guillem Borrell Nogueras, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, kamaraju kusumanchi, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, kamaraju kusumanchi, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Paul Kienzle, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Quentin Spencer, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Guillem Borrell Nogueras, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Matt Taylor, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities,
David Bateman <=
- Re: Octave in Universities, Gorazd Brumen, 2006/03/15
- Re: Octave in Universities, John W. Eaton, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Bill Denney, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Henry F. Mollet, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Quentin Spencer, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Javier Arantegui, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Henry F. Mollet, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Keith Goodman, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Robert A. Macy, 2006/03/14
- Re: Octave in Universities, Stefan de Konink, 2006/03/14