From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Octave Help Mode? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:34:28 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <8763ujc6h7.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208285419 27607 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2008 18:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:50:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 15 20:50:50 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jlq4A-0007Tp-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq3W-0003Ox-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2v-0003Dv-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2u-0003DA-41 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2t-0003D1-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jlq2t-0001xp-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlq2q-0005UF-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:38:16 +0000 Original-Received: from e178020046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.20.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:38:16 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178020046.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:38:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178020046.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CfrUw23Vn23WSBhFWO46b2ZCCiA= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53313 Archived-At: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:41:18 +0200 Richard G. Riley wrote: > Christian Herenz writes: > >> That is a nice idea, but would not solve my problem that I was >> actually forced to hand in the results with matlab, otherwise I was >> told today by a professor my results would not be accepted. But I am >> working on this issue right now, cause my course is called >> "Computational Physics" not "Computational Physics with Matlab". > > Why on earth do you feel that your Professor should master every > application out there that a student might feel is his right to use? Did > it cross your mind that he does not have the skill in Octave that you > have? Erm, if he teaches *computational* physics his skills should be good enough to read and understand another language that is almost full compatible to his favorite language. In my numerical physics course we had completely free choice of the language (but only got support for C ;). And by the way, I think it's very questionable if it still counts as "science" if you use proprietary software, if you don't have at least full access to the source code. David