To reiterate my points against Matlab are NOT easy=bad: Matlab doesn't give transferable skills and it's not open science. 
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Replying to @o_guest
You said "nothing, at least superficially, seems hard..." You mean: it seems easy, but actually not because no transferable skills?
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I thought I explained this repeatedly in the main text. I posit that Matlab does not teach you transferable skills.
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And one of the many reasons why [see more in the blog post] is because it's too easy. Python is also easy but without an IDE.
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Being easy in of itself is not the core problem. Think of the reasons why it's a problem as reasons why we classify stuff as
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birds. We certainly look to see if they can fly, but penguins can't fly and are birds and bats can fly and aren't.
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The reason I dislike Matlab for teaching in psychology as a first language is complex and so because over the last week I
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failed to express it over a few tweets [cos it's complex] I wrote it up as a blog post. I guess if you disagree with complex
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reasons of your own you might have to write up a longer reply too. Twitter lets you use images as text for a longer reply.
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Okay, that point is sorted. Dw, your blog is fantastic. I did actually read it and I will recommend it
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thanks so much — all this support has been so heartening! 


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