Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
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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It was excellent for all things numerical analysis and optimization related. Enabled research that depended on them.
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I still find this to be true, though we increasingly have more options. Julia will probably replace it.
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that's great. Had no idea julia was replacing it. Nice.
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I know lots of numerical computing folks who love it, which is critical for all else to follow.
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that's amazing, very far from my area though
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No real competition. it provides a convenient repl for lots of sci computing. (Alternatives: mathematica/maple too symbolic).
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