From: calin <buia@physics.unc.edu>
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I don't know anybody working on a Mac complaining about not having a
"full experience". Most of the people I know using macs are doing so
because they don't like the "wonderful experience" they got on
windows machines (otherwise they would move to windows and have the
full experience of marvels that the windows matlab version has to
offer). As far as I am concerned, the loss of a X11 version for mac
would eliminate the advantage of a mac: the mac offers ease of
administration and the media type of programs one can find on windows
combined with the possibility of compiling and running programs UNIX
style (remotely, in the background, all that and more). I don't know
what exactly people don't experience on the mac version of matlab,
but let me tell you what I experienced on the windows version of it:
trouble with C and Forstran compilers, trouble running in the
background, trouble running a loop that calls stand alone C or
Fortran executables (the workaround involving Cygwin and a lot of
wasted time to get it work properly). Remembering my last experience
with Matlab on Windows sends shivers down my spine, so if X11 Matlab
disappears on macs, I'll probably move to linux machines... But
that's just me.