Fw: Future of Octave

[Prof M. N. Anandaram]

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From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
To: Prof M. N. Anandaram <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:26:06 AM
Subject: Re: Future of Octave

I think you only replied to me.  If you want others to see this
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jwe


On 22-Aug-2008, Prof M. N. Anandaram wrote:

| Hi John and others:
| The feature set that Octave 3.0.X comes with is quite adequate for the needs
| of a science/engg student (highschool to PhD level) or a professional too.
| It is not necessary for it to be a replacement of Matlab in all respects. 
Those who want
| such a thing can try Scilab( a French product available under GNUGPL) which 
already comes
| closer to Matlab.
| As one interested in computational astrophysics I find that programming in 
Octave is far more
| easier than doing it in Fortran XX(=64,66,77,90,95 etc). Bill Paxton (EZWeb) 
a Kavli Institute scholar in
| California and Frank Timmes (cococubed.com) of  Arizona (and many others) 
have made available in
| their websites a large number of Fortran programs relating to stellar 
structure and evolution.
| My goal is to do this in Octave and have started translating some of the 
programs. Others interested 
| in developing a suite of astrophysics programs for Octave are welcome to join 
me.
| In this respect I would request Octave  to start an Octave File Exchange - a 
section  of user contributed
| application programs  similar to Matlab File Exchange.  I am ready to 
contribute a few!
| This is one of the ways Octave can advance as an alternatative for fortran 
like programming
| anandaram
| 
| 
| ----- Original Message ----
| From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
| To: isaacgerg <address@hidden>
| Cc: address@hidden
| Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:58:05 PM
| Subject: Future of Octave
| 
| On 21-Aug-2008, isaacgerg wrote:
| 
| |  I think Octave is a really great tool and was impressed by the number of
| | functions you have implemented.  I was wondering though, where is Octave
| | going?  What are you short term goals (1 year) and long term goals (5 years
| | and 10 years).
| 
| The future of Octave is whatever the community of users and developers
| of Octave want it to be.
| 
| If you are a member of the community, then what goals do you have for
| Octave, and what will you do to make those goals a reality?
| 
| jwe
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