Matlab references in docs; distinguishing between ML and Octave

[Philip Nienhuis]

While perusing the Octave documentation about Java I noted several references
to Matlab; one in particular about "how to distinguish between Octave and
Matlab".

1. Is there a policy about mentioning ML in the Octave docs?
IMO it should be minimized to "only when unavoidable"; but because of
Octave's aim for ML compatibility, references to Matlab are all over the
place.

2. What would be a good place in the doc for a description of how to
distinguish between ML and Octave? The Java section is too narrow-scoped. 
Dropping this info entirely or referring to the wiki seems a bit
inappropriate to me. I'd find it a bit double-hearted to aim to be
ML-compatible while mentioning nowhere how to differentiate between the two
in scripts and m-file functions.

3. A way to distinguish Octave and ML, that works in both, could be to use
the "computer" function; I saw that ML and Octave return different answers
for the first output arg ('win32' and "i686-pc-mingw32", resp.; when called
with 'arch': 'win32' and "mingw32-i686", resp.).
I don't know what answers Matlab and Octave give on OSX, nor what ML would
answer on Linux.

Philip




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