Michael D Godfrey <godfrey <at> isl.stanford.edu> writes:
> Slight tune-up:
> GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily
> intended
> for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the
> numerical
> solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other
numerical
> experiments. It also provides extensive graphics
> capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. It is
> normally used
> through its interactive command line interface. The Octave
> language is
> quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily
> portable.
> A full description of Octave capabilities is available at
> <URL of
> the Manual?>.
A further little thing, no offense taken if ignored:
Old: "It is normally used through its interactive command line interface."
New: "It is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but
Octave also can be used easily in a batch environment."
One of the things Octave did (still does?) much better than its proprietary
inspiration is batch programming, which is very important to us Unix scripting
types and may deserve mention.