I hope progress is made, of course, but there might be some obstacles, even though Octave sounds extremely matlab-compatible (and apparently even can use MEX files). This page,
http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/psychtoolbox/message/9697
claims "Why would you want to stay away from [Octave]? ... You make extensive use of GUIs in your code. Octave is not yet compatible with Matlab in the GUI area, although there is some rudimentary support. ... Object oriented programming, which is also a very new feature in Matlab, is reported to be not yet very stable ..."
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