Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
I just wonder why and how. How did they get so expensive for nothing?
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There must be a cool story behind it like Microsoft going around undercutting IBM or Macs or whatever they did.
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There's always something juicy in tech when the the product is a mess in the present.

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p.s. I am no fan of matlab (I'm a
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it's certainly moribund now...
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I saw it take off in 90s, when the competition was C/fortran with NAG libraries. Matlab made things so much easier.
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