Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
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Replying to @o_guest
there was no Python... R (S) was unkown outside of statistics
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Replying to @ceptional
I've had so many reasons tweeted to me but yeah, this is just another
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Replying to @o_guest
like many things, historical reasons led to overwhelming market lead
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Replying to @ceptional
also to be fair there was no R and Matlab was free when it started
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Replying to @o_guest
S, the forerunner to R, started nearly 10 years before MATLAB.
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Replying to @ceptional
ah indeed. My mentions have only recently died down so my brain can't keep up. 
2:17 PM - 15 Mar 2017
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