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Re:Emacs for Data Science by jordigh on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @02:50PM (#9766825)
Huh? Which Octave music language?

Do you mean this?

http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#Why_.22Octave.22.3F

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Re:Emacs for Data Science by fennecfoxen on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:37PM (#9767177)
I can't find "octave music language" anywhere on Google either. But maybe the commentor was thinking of abc-mode and misspoke? That one is for a music language.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AbcMode

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Re:Emacs for Data Science by coldtea on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:45PM (#9767239)
I bet he probably meant "Overtone" the music programming language / environment based on Clojure.

Though octave was originally a music term too.

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Re:Emacs for Data Science by jordigh on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:51PM (#9767289)
The people named Octave are not named after music. It's just a variation of Octavius.
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Re:Emacs for Data Science by coldtea on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @04:08PM (#9767417)
Actually Octavius itself derives from the latin for "eight" (octavus, which is were the music term also got it name).
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Re:Emacs for Data Science by jordigh on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @04:16PM (#9767476)
Yes, of course, but the number eight means more than just music.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine that people keep thinking that GNU Octave has something to do with music.

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