MATLAB vs Octave

MATLAB is much faster and the built in IDE is the greatest IDE ever created and the only one worth using.

On the other hand, Octave's has some syntax extensions that really make it look nicer.

I can't decide.

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If I were to pull two programs off the top of my head (GCC and Visual Studio) then compare them based on a criterion I obtained in the same manner (how well they implement the C standard) obviously you'd know which one would be 'better' in that regard. Since GCC is free and Visual Studio is proprietary, then based on your logic, it would follow that all free software is better than all proprietary software.

Unless you can actually say something, directly, about the ethical issues involved with free/proprietary software, instead of whining about how you prefer the features of the programs (which is clearly unrelated to how the programs are licensed) then you're just speaking shit.