I don't understand general criticisms of it as a programming language. Every one of them has tradeoffs. It was never meant for general purpose tasks. I've seen many elegantly written math-y algorithm packages that take advantage of its OO features. Downside is its closed env.
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Also you keep ignoring the issue of how Matlab is not
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People can decide for themselves what they want to use. Most scis are switching to
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YES! People can do good, solid, reproducible work with any tool, whether it's matlab, python, or hand-assembled. You can see what their code does and copy it if you want. That's open. Your claim was that matlab is bad, bad for science and bad scientist. I think that's too strong.
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No. I keep pasting this one for you, in the blogging it has links too. Are you sure you really read it? "Secondly, Matlab is closed source, proprietary, and prohibitively expensive if you have to buy it yourself."http://neuroplausible.com/matlab
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"They obfuscate their source code in many cases, meaning bugs are much harder to spot and impossible to edit ourselves without risking court action. Moreover, using Matlab for science results in paywalling our code."http://neuroplausible.com/matlab
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"We are by definition making our computational science closed."http://neuroplausible.com/matlab
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Matlab is NOT
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I take it you didn't click, so here is the link:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2470765/can-i-distribute-my-matlab-program-as-open-source …
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