"dpb" <none@non.net> wrote in message news:k5a197$3re$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> On 10/12/2012 2:23 PM, Penny Anderson wrote:
> ...
>
>> Can you please tell us a little bit more about what kinds of problems
>> you are using interp1 to solve in this way?
>
> Why should customers (present or future) have to justify their usage to
> TMW?
It's not justification. It's identifying a use case for INTERP1 (and by
extension INTERP2, INTERP3, etc.) that we may not have known about, or
identifying a use case we did know about as being a more frequent usage of
the functionality than we estimated or measured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
> The point of Matlab is to be a general-purpose toolset for an essentially
> unlimited range of applications. What purpose does it serve to try to
> guess a priori what somebody might want to use any particular feature for?
Identifying functional requirements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_requirement
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