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From: Thomas Clark on 7 May 2008 13:49
OK,

Trying to avoid getting hot headed about this. Allow me to
state some facts, in no particular order:

1. I'm a student too, about to buy a license of my own
(currently use uni computers).

2. For such a well designed and useful product, the cost of
a student license is currently pretty minimal.

3. Allowing vastly reduced licensing fees to academia,
particularly for student learning, benefits TMW in the
long-run, by establishing MATLAB as THE software to use.

4. Case study of 3: At my last company, nobody used MATLAB.
After a year spent re-writing design codes in MATLAB and
demonstrating it's capability (as I learned at uni, it's
MUCH better for design optimisation than fortran is!), I
left the company - the team of 8 I left behind now use
MATLAB daily.

5. Most releases of MATLAB aren't that dissimilar to the
previous one.

6. R2008a is actually a big one, due to Object orientation;
but it'd be pretty unwise to rely on this before you've even
tried it... leave it a version or two to settle down to a
stable and well-integrated solution.

7. OO capability already exists in MATLAB... ever heard of
MEX files in C?



____________CONCLUSIONS_________

1. Cheers to TMW for letting me have a product I could never
afford otherwise, even if it is a bit out of date.

2. If we (students) want TMW's policy on student versions to
change, why don't we:
- stop arguing about it here
- get involved with the student version preference survey
(second post) by emailing Pete Janzow and volunteering.
Pete, you've got mail from me.



___________ FUNNY COMMENT _________

Is it just me, or should the spell checker on this site
really recognise the word MATLAB??


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