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:::::What I mean is that if we support alternative syntaxes that don't exist in Matlab, Octave scripts that use those syntaxes will not be portable to Matlab unless they are rewritten. And people will continue to use the alternative syntaxes unless they are completely removed from Octave, so people will (accidentally) continue to write scripts that are not portable to Matlab. That I see as a problem. This is of course not possible to avoid if we develop a functionality before Matlab, as in the examples you mentioned. —[[User:Kri|Kri]] ([[User talk:Kri|talk]]) 03:13, 22 September 2014 (PDT) | :::::What I mean is that if we support alternative syntaxes that don't exist in Matlab, Octave scripts that use those syntaxes will not be portable to Matlab unless they are rewritten. And people will continue to use the alternative syntaxes unless they are completely removed from Octave, so people will (accidentally) continue to write scripts that are not portable to Matlab. That I see as a problem. This is of course not possible to avoid if we develop a functionality before Matlab, as in the examples you mentioned. —[[User:Kri|Kri]] ([[User talk:Kri|talk]]) 03:13, 22 September 2014 (PDT) | ||
:::::: That is up to the authors of said code. If they want to write code that works in both Matlab in Octave, they must take care to avoid features missing in Matlab. This is in no way different from Matlab users who should take care to avoid using features that are still missing in Octave if they care about their code being used in Octave. It is not the Octave developers responsibility to prevent this. Unfortunately, the following will sound like a joke for many. If Matlab code is using some new Matlab code, it is perfectly acceptable to blame Octave developers and ask them to implement that missing function. But if Octave code is not working in Matlab because it uses a feature Mathworks has not implemented, no one asks Mathworks to implement it. The blame seems to fall on Octave developers for implementing things before Mathworks. Next time you face such a problem, I'll suggest you fill a bug report with Mathworks about missing feature and Octave compatibility. | |||
:::::: --[[User:Carandraug|carandraug]] ([[User talk:Carandraug|talk]]) 03:42, 22 September 2014 (PDT) | |||