I hate Matlab. I'm being provocative.
But Matlab is terrible.
If you can, please switch and please stop teaching students Matlab. 
@jtth sorry but I have to disagree categorically on teaching people something maladaptive like that. Just because I can cope or you can cope
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@o_guest I’m not making claims about what’s better to teach with (I still think folks should learn scheme first then transition to python) -
@jtth haha I did scheme first too - purple/wizard book? -
@o_guest ours was based loosely on that, but was all from the makers of http://www.scheme.com/ -
@jtth mine was more 10 years ago, I'm sure things have changed -
@o_guest so was mine :) 2005. -
@jtth we were also taught Ada haha -
@jtth can't even look at trash syntax like that makes me want to cry, or like php, jesus, how can I code in this shit -
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@o_guest teaching 0-based first is better, yeah. but the 1 indexing fits well with me when i’m working that way. -
@jtth also to be clear computer scientists do count differently to other humans - exactly cos it makes coding easier http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/26/why-computer-scientists-count-from-zero/ … -
@jtth that's just one tiny example of course, but its undeniable it makes computations faster
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