Re: Octave in Universities

[Keith Goodman]

On 3/14/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
>
> | -  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to avoid it 
> as
> | much as possible)
>
> In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
> even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
> anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
> least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
> the GUI window.  So, when people are saying that they can't live
> without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
> few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
> familiar "Edit" button).  Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.

It is encouraging to hear that so many people from so many disciplines
from so many countries use Octave. I had no idea.

This thread is the closest I've seen to a user survey. I don't think
this thread is the right place to tell the survey respondents that
they do not want a GUI.

But after hearing the lead developer of Octave suggest that an Octave
GUI is not needed, I think we should start a new thread on the GUI/CLI
religious debate.



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