can you elaborate on why Matlab is uniquely brain-rotting? I'm a matlab monoglot but py-curious.
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Replying to @TomRhysMarshall @AnneEUrai
because it's so so so bad. Firstly, you use an IDE. Secondly, arrays start at 1. Thirdly, you need a new file
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for each function. Fourthly, documentation and community is pathetically bad, centrally controlled. Fifthly,
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it's closed source.
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I can keep going but I'm sure others have written great posts on this.
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Replying to @o_guest @AnneEUrai
that... was a pretty comprehensive demolition. :)
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okay mega-super-naive-n00b time but... don't *actual numbers* start at 1 too? What makes this a flaw?
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Replying to @TomRhysMarshall @AnneEUrai
I don't have space but you have to read up on why computer science starts at zero
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Replying to @o_guest @AnneEUrai
awesome! Never made connection btw totally-illogical '1955 is in 20th Century' and zero-indexing. *happy dance*
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oh and one more thing matlab and HPC: no-no
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