Trouble Building Octave

Bob Cain wrote:

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> Tim Wescott wrote:
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>> Bob Cain wrote:
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>>> Tim Wescott wrote:
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>>>> May I suggest SciLab as an alternative?  About the only thing Octave 
>>>> has that SciLab doesn't is better MatLab compatibility -- and SciLab 
>>>> has a translator -- 
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>>> Both ways?
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>>> Bob
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>> Alas no -- only into SciLab, 
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> Darn.
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>> and then I understand you often have to massage things a bit.
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> Yeah I suppose little things like 0 instead of 1 index origin can give 
> run time problems that a syntactic translator couldn't deal with.  Gives 
> me the shivers, actually.
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> Bob

SciLab matrices have an index origin of 1, just live MatLab and Octave. 
  Gives me fits when I'm going back and forth between SciLab and C.

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Tim Wescott wrote:

> SciLab matrices have an index origin of 1, just live MatLab and Octave. 
>  Gives me fits when I'm going back and forth between SciLab and C.

Really!  My memory had one of the interpreters doing it right.  Ah, well.


Bob
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