From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T15:04:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby vs. java?


On 11-May-05, at 7:06 AM, Franz Hartmann wrote:

>> GNU Octave IS a programming language., designed for numerical
>> applications. It runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. Its website is here:
>> http://www.octave.org/
>
> that is strange, i always thought that octave was the name of the big 
> sgi box. havent these gnu guys been accused by sgi yet?
> thank you for the link, but i dont like it. it is to much like fortran 
> for me. they say that when you know fortran you can learn octave in a 
> few hours. i think fortrans time is over. and besides, what shall my 
> professor say when i come up with a fortran program?

You may be thinking of "Octane" or "Origin". SGI has no machine called 
"Octave".

> Franz

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Jeremy Tregunna
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