Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
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Also most univ's had site licenses making is cost effective. It started as a more open platform but has lost much of that overs the years
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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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consider yourself lucky
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Replying to @ar0mcintosh @wandedob
well, I did all my phd including the figures in C. That was pain.
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