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Re: is octave slow and missing functions?
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Przemek Klosowski |
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Re: is octave slow and missing functions? |
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Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:37:27 -0400 (EDT) |
> I got this response re. octave as alternative to matlab:
>
>> I should make a note about this; I use octave a lot at home as it's
>> rather cheap (free). It can be an alternative in some instances but
>> there are some limitations with it:
....
>> * there is no GUI (and the CLI lacks the very useful !-command)
Opinionated ignorance. Matlab uses ! for external shell commands, so
for instance '!ls' prints the current directory listing. In Octave
you'd just do 'ls'. I guess he has a point---Octave does lack the !
command (nb, in Octave ! is the logical negation operator).