On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:55:45AM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: [snip] > FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific > prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems > such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is > Open Source. Can you explain how this package is better / different than octave?