Re: Introduction and Question

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 2, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Phillips, Scott (phillis8) wrote:

> Hello all:
> 
> I am a new developer (registered a little over a week ago). I was looking at 
> the list of ideas on the wiki and wondering if anyone knew which ones were 
> principally Octave/MATLAB coding, and which were C++. I can program in C, but 
> my Octave/MATLAB skills are a lot better :).
> 
> Just a thought, because I use MATLAB at work. How hard would it be to make 
> Octave use "end" instead of "endif", "endwhile", "endswitch", etc? I think 
> that the MATLAB incompatibilities are what is preventing Octave from taking 
> over the science/engineering programming market.
> 
> Zygomorphic

Octave can use "end" instead of "endif", "endfor", etc.

I addition to the projects on the wiki, you may want to take a look at the bug 
tracker.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

Fixing bugs is a good place to get familiar with Octave.

Ben