Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. . This package provides the elisp files for the Octave modes for GNU Emacs and XEmacs. . The recommended branch of Octave is 3.0. The 3.1 branch is experimental and is considered to be unstable.