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by jordigh 4031 days ago
4 hours to compile? I see you're using Mac OS X. This is why I really dislike source distribution in general, and I get very frustrated with Mac OS X users who praise homebrew. It really is not a very good distribution mechanism.

As to your second point for why Octave and not R or Python, my stance as an Octave dev is that you should use R or Python. But if you don't want to rewrite all of that Matlab code, tutorials, and papers out there and you still think they should run in something other than Matlab, that is when you use Octave.