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Should this language category be titled "Octave" instead? GNU Octave is merely the implementation. Or is the implementation "GNU Octave" merely a dialect of [[Matlab]], like Bash is a dialect of [[UNIX Shell]]? --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 15:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
: Hm, I've called GNU Octave since somewhere I've read it is better to call it so to avoid confusion with something... but I can't find the place again, and searching around I've seen that after all often it is called just Octave, so maybe it must be renamed...
: Anyway, Octave (or GNU Octave) is not a dialect of Matlab; as language, it wants to be compatible mostly with the language used by Matlab, but indeed it is not fully compatible. As far as I know, the only implementation of Octave (as language) is GNU Octave/Octave. (Not everything prepended with GNU is necessarily a GNU implementation of what follows like GNU Forth, GNU Fortran and so on). Of course being Octave "open", different implementation can exist, so...
: After R (GNU R), I agree with the renaming if I won't find clues why I've choosen GNU Octave as name instead... (and it is also shorter to write!:D) --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 16:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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