Huh? Which Octave music language? Do you mean this? http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#W...

fennecfoxen · on June 23, 2015

I can't find "octave music language" anywhere on Google either. But maybe the commentor was thinking of abc-mode and misspoke? That one is for a music language.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AbcMode

coldtea · on June 23, 2015

I bet he probably meant "Overtone" the music programming language / environment based on Clojure.

Though octave was originally a music term too.

jordigh · on June 23, 2015

The people named Octave are not named after music. It's just a variation of Octavius.

coldtea · on June 23, 2015

Actually Octavius itself derives from the latin for "eight" (octavus, which is were the music term also got it name).

jordigh · on June 23, 2015

Yes, of course, but the number eight means more than just music.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine that people keep thinking that GNU Octave has something to do with music.