Re: Book project

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Well the fact of the matter is, there are literally hundreds if not
> thousands of MATLAB books.  If Octave has almost the same exact syntax and
> functions as MATLAB, then why would anyone want to read this book?  That's
> why I think it should cover maybe a little bit of the basics, but mainly
> focus on what Octave can do that MATLAB can't.
>

Here's a minor point: a printed Octave book can be accompanied by a CD
with Octave (rpms, debs, Win installers, sources etc) and extension
packages. I think the same is not true for any book on MATLAB :)


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