title: FreeMat : How different is it from Octave?
body: <p>Have been looking for an alternative to MatLab...found working on Octave quite difficult...missing the debugging capabilities of MatLab...Came across FreeMat...wanted to know how is FreeMat different from Octave...is it just a graphical frontend to Octave like QtOctave (which I'm yet to explore) or is it more than that? What additional capabilities does it provide? What would be a better use of time - investing in FreeMat or makign do with Octave using tools like QtOctave (matlab not an option)?</p>