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Dan
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I've used Octave and MATLAB interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. MATLAB can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

    MATLAB can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

  2. Octave produces much better plots.

    Octave can use either # or % for comments, Matlab only uses %
  3. Octave produces much better plots.

I've used Octave and MATLAB interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. MATLAB can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

  2. Octave produces much better plots.

I've used Octave and MATLAB interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. MATLAB can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.
  2. Octave can use either # or % for comments, Matlab only uses %
  3. Octave produces much better plots.
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Geoff Oxberry
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I've used octaveOctave and matlabMATLAB interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. MatlabMATLAB can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

  2. Octave produces much better plots.

I've used octave and matlab interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. Matlab can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

  2. Octave produces much better plots.

I've used Octave and MATLAB interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. MATLAB can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

  2. Octave produces much better plots.

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Dan
Dan
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I've used octave and matlab interchangeably on the same pieces of code in the past; I've had no problems with compatibility. The main differences as far as I can tell are:

  1. Matlab can be byte-compiled, and is slightly faster.

  2. Octave produces much better plots.