GNU Octave 3.0 Released After 11 Years

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Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 22, 2007 @07:19PM from the math-just-works dept.

Digana writes "GNU Octave is a free numerical computing environment highly compatible with the MATLAB language. After 11 years of development since version 2.0, stable version 3.0 released yesterday. This version is interesting because unlike other free or semi-free MATLAB competitors like Scilab, specific compatibility with MATLAB code is a design goal. This has manifested itself in goodies like better support for MATLAB's Handle Graphics, a syntax closer to MATLAB's own for many functions, and many functions from the sister project Octave-Forge ported to the core Octave project for an enriched functionality closer to the toolboxes provided by MATLAB. GUI development is underway, but still no JIT compiling, which is a show-stopper for Octave newbies coming from MATLAB with unvectorized code."

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Re:11 Years? (Score:5, Funny)

by nacturation ( 646836 ) writes: <nacturation AT gmail DOT com> on Saturday December 22, 2007 @07:33PM (#21793824) Journal

11 Years no GUI, and no JIT and only partial MATLAB support.

Tell me again why GNU FreeSoftware is a better development model if you don't mind.
It may not be the best now, but just wait until HURD is released... then this development model's superiority will be obvious!

Re:11 Years? (Score:4, Funny)

by the_humeister ( 922869 ) writes: on Saturday December 22, 2007 @07:39PM (#21793856)

Indeed. I can't wait to play Duke Nukem Forever on my new GNU/HURD system...

Re:11 years? (Score:3, Funny)

by BlueParrot ( 965239 ) writes: on Saturday December 22, 2007 @08:08PM (#21794014)

Ok, I was supposed to make a joke about my kernel version here, so I pressed ctrl+alt+enter to spawn a terminal to run uname in. It took me a whole minute until I remembered that I'm visiting my relatives over christmas and that all this free software (firefox, xchat, VLC, Pidgin, Open Office, LyX ... ) is actually running on my dad's windows box. Microsoft are going to be in deep shit when KDE is released for windows.

11 years? (Score:5, Funny)

by Junior J. Junior III ( 192702 ) writes: on Saturday December 22, 2007 @08:25PM (#21794108) Homepage

It turns out that Octave is one of the lesser-known products of 3DRealms. Also, Duke Nukem Forever/Hurd will be out next quarter.

Re:Good and bad news (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday December 22, 2007 @09:30PM (#21794450)

Is your python code as unreadable as your English?

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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Saturday December 22, 2007 @09:39PM (#21794506)

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Too ba for Debian users... (Score:3, Funny)

by agw ( 6387 ) writes: on Sunday December 23, 2007 @05:28AM (#21796592)

as it will take another 11 years for a Debian version to be released which then includes Ocatave 3.0.

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