Re: Reasons

[Karthik Vishwanath]

First - Thanks to all the ppl. who helped me with this! 

> (Octave can utilize matlab m files so you have the entire set contributed
> matlab m files at your disposal without having to do any porting)

Is Octave similar to Matlab? I have the complete Matlab manuals with me 
and was wondering if programming Octave was similar to Matlab. 

> As for c, well gcc is arguably the most solid c compiler on any platform
> (imho).

:-) BTW, what is imho?? 



Thanks again for all your help,

-Karthik.