I know! And then they spend it all writing toolboxes for Finance instead of fixing the broken stuff
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the broken stuff is going to be abandonware soon IMHO
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Matlab is an unstoppable force at this point I'm afraid
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Really!? I've seen
@ResearchSoftEng stats that show it's on the decline... at least I think that is what I saw.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Languages take a LONG time to die. Exhibit A, FORTRAN. Exhibit B, C
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Replying to @spinicist @cMadan
Cherry picking the ones that survived is not actually evidence language take a long time to die though.
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I dunno about you but when I did my compsci degree we learned so many from Ada to Scheme to C to Prolog. Some are dead.
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@DRMacIver but C = poops despite being immortal – taking long time to die isn't a good thing.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Sometimes the incentives to change aren't great enough to outweigh the advantages of staying in a comfy niche.
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I think the price of Matlab, closed source, & the fact they don't update broken stuff will eventually "work".
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I was referring to this by the way no idea if a more deatiled version is available? https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-09-12-quick-and-dirty-analysis-software-being-used-research-python-matlab-and-r …
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thanks for sharing! It also links to the original data
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took me 2 attempts normally get what I want w 1
@SoftwareSaved should be more highly Google-ranked or someth!0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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