Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
why did they buy licenses? I'm curious how this happened. At some point Matlab must have convinced ppl it was hot.
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easy for prototyping (as was noted) and heavily used for teaching in engineering and comp sci 1/2
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ppl w/o strong coding skills could learn fast and it was easy to distribute b/c no platform dependencies 2/2
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I wasn't taught it in my undergrad
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most people that I know in psych so use it have barely a grasp of what a for loop is exactly because Matlab looks
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like Excel so they just edit stuff manually, never learning to code for real...
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true - the GUI part of matlab has dumbed down things a bit too much. But IMHO, given a good mentor/prof it can be a valuable teaching tool
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I still want it to be just another language people know (or don't). Python is so much better.

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for sure - I encourage my crew to learn matlab, python and R. Some of the brave ones try C++
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