Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
also to be fair there was no R and Matlab was free when it started
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exactly, these historical reasons are what I was asking for and twitter is so amazing as are some of my back channels in which I
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found mathworks employees, who have told me tons
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S, the forerunner to R, started nearly 10 years before MATLAB.
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ah indeed. My mentions have only recently died down so my brain can't keep up.
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