neuroscientists earnestly hating on MATLAB is pretty embarrassing for neuroscience as an intellectual discipline. you might as well shit on slide rules.
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Replying to @upbeatprof
Here’s the thing that irks me so much about matlab: poor/obfuscatory coding practices in Matlab are a feature, not a bug. It was made to be so approachable and easy that it sacrifices on best practices which is an enormous barrier to open science.
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Replying to @KenjiEricLee @upbeatprof
In Python, maybe you don’t need to follow proper OOP for something to work but it’s there for you when you’d like to learn. In Matlab, there is a barrier to how many tools of abstraction you can utilize. There’s a reason no software engineers use it.
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Replying to @KenjiEricLee @upbeatprof
And if I’m taking your point unsarcastically, I want to point out that Matlab is peddled to undergrads/grad students in the form of free licenses and pizza - it’s just not apparent to this audience why Matlab is so terrible unlike a slide rule which is obviously obsolete.
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Replying to @KenjiEricLee @upbeatprof
I say this with only a bit of hyperbole: so long as matlab occupies a lion’s share of the code in neuroscience, the field will never be truly collaborative. If I can’t understand your codebase (because matlab has awful structuring), I’m never going to contribute to it.
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