This is the first I’ve heard of Octave. I think I’ll try it out. I’m trying to learn more about Control Theory, but I’m broke, so I didn’t want to pony up the cash for the home version of MatLab. I’ll check out some of your older videos too. Thanks.
GNU/Octave does all the functionality of matlab but in a different way, so for a user accustomed to that environment he will find similarities but also profound differences, which sometimes make his demonstration script not working. Personally I prefer Octave for its scalability and portability so much so that I can compile it on Linux as well as on BSD or Minix which is useful to me since I also have a BSD system in production. If the user is used to using software of this type with a minimum of application he will be able to carry out his operations perhaps by installing the necessary packages via the internal package manager. However, it is a video that is always enjoyed listening to, but it is still right to talk about it because they are useful software for different fields.
Octave has evolved into a nice environment for mathematical computation. However its user base is shrinking, as most newcomers use python with NumPy/SciPy instead.
