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Octave?

Octave is close enough to Matlab to have inherited most of its flaws, yet not close enough to be a complete drop-in replacement. Julia, while obviously inspired by Matlab, is not attempting any sort of comparability, and thus can fix flaws and be a better language.

Octave, in my opinion, should be relegated to (trying to) run legacy Matlab code, while Julia or Numpy should be the first choice for any new code.

> Octave, in my opinion, should be relegated to (trying to) run legacy Matlab code, while Julia or Numpy should be the first choice for any new code.

Octave dev here. I agree.

Every time I have to implement yet another idiocy of the Matlab language, I die a little inside. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

And its greatly appreciated.

Come work on a modern functional language!

You mean mathics? Perhaps. I don't know how important it is to liberate mathematica code. It doesn't seem to have the deployment that Matlab has.

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