Re: Octave presentation

[David Bateman]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Rubén Roa-Ureta <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > if anyone is interested, I'm sharing a simple presentation that I'm
> > > going to use in my talk about Octave at Prague university.
> > > It is not intended to be a tutorial to Octave, but an informational
> > > intro about Octave and Free Software in general.
> > > Comments from anyone are welcome, as well as modifications or
> > > graphical adjustments.
> > > (PS: Yes, you may find it rather curt. I like minimalistic presentations.)
> > Very nice minimalistic presentation.
> > I think among the FOSS successes you have to mention R (www.r-project.org),
> > the statistical programming system. It has thousands of users and its
> > expanding.
>
> Good idea - R is a great example, especially the analogy of S/R and
> Matlab/Octave.
>
>
> > Rubén

Yeah Right!!! Check the page http://www.r-project.org/contributors.html 
where you'll find the text

<quote>
R was inspired by the S environment which has been principally developed 
by John Chambers, with substantial input from Douglas Bates, Rick 
Becker, Bill Cleveland, Trevor Hastie, Daryl Pregibon and Allan Wilks. A 
special debt is owed to John Chambers who has graciously contributed 
advice and encouragement in the early days of R and later became a 
member of the core team.
</quote>

I'll believe the R/S vs Octave/Matlab thing when Cleve Moler contributes 
to Octave..

D.

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