free MATLAB environment

Question

I'm learning the MATLAB language and would like to have some kind of free environment to experiment with. The MATLAB environment provided by MathWorks is commercial. There appears to be a trial available, but I can't figure out how to get the trial license.

For the moment, all I need is a command-line and the "standard libraries".

Answer 1

Octave is mostly compatible with matlab: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/