Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:37:27 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: Suttipan Limanond <limanond@enws626.eas.asu.edu>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matlab for linux and freebsd Message-ID: <23329.893972247@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:06:59 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980430094412.18486C-100000@cole.salk.edu>
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> were not acceptable to many lab members soooo... So, I sent a lengthy > letter to Dr. Cleve Moler himself (Chief Scientist at the Mathworks), in Hmmm. I wonder if Dr. Moler still remembers me - we worked together on a project back in the mid 80's. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to call. :) > justify the unknown market potential of the product. By the way, did you > know that the Matlab language parser was implemented brute-force by hand > and is NOT written using lex and yacc? That's pretty funny considering that another other guy working on that project (and my boss) was Steve Johnson. :-) You'd think something might have rubbed off. > Of course, I reported this to the folks at the Mathworks right away with > detailed instructions on how I got it to work and even a diff file to > patch their sh scripts so that future releases would be "FreeBSD Linux > emulator ready". Their response was, 1) "that's neat" and 2) "we don't > support that". Wonderful. What really got me steamed though, was a Grrrrr, those twinks. You'd think they'd be more cooperative in light of all the work you did. Hmmm. Let me make a few calls and twist a few tails. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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