I have used Matlab for 17 years, would take a lot of time to get as good with Python, dont see benefit of changing
you don't think free & open source equivalents will kill it off like with many similar cases? What's diff? 
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what about the opposite... lots of popular software have FOSS equivalents but persist, e.g., MS Office, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop
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i thought those were exceptions to the rule because users aren't also devs
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so you think Matlab had staying power because it's got current monopoly?
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also advantages because of company overseeing development (vs groups of volunteers), differences in how language operates
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when you say overseeing development I hear "hides bugs". I guess we disagree on the future so only time will tell.

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I see more consistency in naming conventions and how arguments passed to functions...much function code is readable (and commented)
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how can you read them if they are closed source? https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/79714-how-do-we-know-that-matlabs-algorithms-are-working-properly?requestedDomain=www.mathworks.com …
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...you just type 'edit [function]'. It doesn't work for some of the base math functions, but does work for most other functions
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