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The Wolfram Alpha guys announced they are finally compliant with Zawinski's law of software envelopment[*] and read email, thus the risk of Wolfram language becoming obsolete dropped.
[*] "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by virens on Wednesday July 22 2015, @05:10PM
You have no idea what you are talking about. Octave is a joke, and it is nowhere near MATLAB. Tons of bugs (I remember a release with severe bug in imread - a basic function!), severe incompatibilities and abysmal documentation, not to mention that this so-called "open-source implementation" has just got a graphical user interface (which is horrible - anyone is surprised?) in 2014 (sic!) [walkingrandomly.com]. If you think that you can run any remotely complex MATLAB code on Octave - you are delusional. It simply won't. All you can do with Octave is to teach students in poor schools/third-world universities, and you will still be using MATLAB books.
In short: Octave is NOT an "open-source implementation of MATLAB", never was and never will be. It is a piss-poor opensource MATLAB-alike script language with dreadful GUI and poor documentation, enough for teaching high-school toddlers.
Octave was actually started as a write-once matlab-like demo for a researcher (John W. Eaton ) who was writing a book about chemical reactors. It was a quick-and-dirty solution for running matlab-like scripts (VERY SIMPLE) without MATLAB.
Speaking of MATLAB itself, I'm tired of Mathworks and their hipster developers. No, seriously - who made that new GUI? That insane ribbon shit is empty on half a screen, yet eats up 10% of horizontal space. Really, WTF? And this objet-disorienting crap pushed on users under pretence "let's make MALTAB like Java"... Worst part is that I have to work with this shit - one "genius" wrote the whole simulator in this OOP-crappy style. And guess what? From one MATLAB version to another, you need to adjust and re-program parts of it because some hipster "developer" dcived to "improve the language". Fucking great, Mathworks, now I cannot run this code on 2013a, only on 2015a. Backward compatibility, my ass...
MATLAB (without OOP nonsense) is a good language, but their developers must be shot in the head and cremated for the clusterfuck of GUI and OOP they made. But Octave is nowhere near it, and by the look of it, never will be.