Why is Matlab described as closed source if you can read the source? Is closed just referring to the compiled C code — or something deeper?https://twitter.com/cMadan/status/841944151755264000 …
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@cMadan this is an important point actually — so you mean it's usually spaghetti?
no, I mean MATLAB does not allow you to read it. Happens on a lot of the toolboxes.
aha so I guess mostly the code is hidden then and not visible like above...
...I haven't had that issue, but I also haven't been thorough in testing which functions are viewable
Even if you can read it, that is only useful for auditing the code, since the license doesn't allow you do do anything else
I'm not even entirely sure how you could debug it then...
MATLAB 2012 had a bug where it would allocate memory and never free it when you passed matrix slices as function arguments
since one has absolutely no access to how memory is allocated, I discovered this bug empirically :p it was fixed eventually
people seem to think on this thread that sci matlab use is more unethical than ethical hahah http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/80790/is-it-ethical-to-use-proprietary-closed-source-software-for-scientific-computa …
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