THIS! There's probably some self-selecting too. People who run a monolithic .m file with 'parameters' updated by find-and-replace aren't looking for a new language; they use whatever someone wrote 5 years ago. You could do the same garbage with a python script (but plz don't).
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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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Do not reply to me again because you're not engaging in good faith.
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No, you can't. Matlab changes the guts of their code and often its obfuscated.https://twitter.com/prokraustinator/status/1031554859370201088?s=19 …
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