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 packages provides the elisp files for the Octave modes for GNU Emacs and XEmacs. . The recommended branch of Octave is 3.0. Please, use the octave3.0-emacsen package instead of this one, since it will be dropped after the Debian lenny release.