FreeMat : How different is it from Octave?

In short, both GNU Octave and FreeMat are open-source alternatives to MATLAB. However, Octave is more mature and has wider community support. I also found this interesting article that compares MATLAB, Octave, FreeMat and SciLab. It does point out a few issues against FreeMat: It doesn’t support some functions (such as kron and pcg). It has limited 3-D graphics capabilities … Read more