An active community provides technical support to users. A number of independently developed Linux programs ( Cantor, KAlgebra) also offer GUI front-ends to Octave.
The 4.0 and newer releases of Octave include a GUI. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It provides a rich Excel-like user interface and its built-in vector programming language FPScript has a syntax similar to MATLAB. It is a declarative and visual programming language based on influence diagrams.
