> > I expressed disappointment by their reliance on Matlab, and especially > that they use core language features of Matlab that evidently not > available in Octave (at least at the time). > > Though another opinion a Sage dev who shall remain nameless gave is "From my experience, Octave is way too much broken in too many ways." But I agree that it would be best to try to make it portable in this manner. See e.g. http://joelgranados.com/2012/04/07/using-matlab-was-a-mistake/ for another interesting view, one a (different) Sage dev even commented on.
> I don't know what you mean by "Matlab is pretty available compared to > other programs." > > Oh, I meant compared to other proprietary programs - presumably installed a lot more places. No worries. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
