Math is math. But there’s a whole world of programming languages & environments out there of varying quality, and they matter.
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Replying to @neurobongo @o_guest
Olivia does a nice job of detailing why Matlab is lousy. It mostly thrives in environments where people don’t know other options exist.
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Replying to @neurobongo @o_guest
This is a field specific thing at this point. Also, I think the population that this is targeted towards is those that don't write their own functions necessarily, which I can see could be problematic
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Replying to @ramsey_am @o_guest
It’s not field specific. It’s a crappy closed source tool that limits your productivity. There’s no field where that’s a good thing.
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Replying to @neurobongo @o_guest
Some people want to write more than one function per file.
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Some people want to control their namespace.
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Looking at https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/998 … with mixture of horror & fascination. Would Octave running in browser be ... progress?
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Not in my opinion. I address octave in http://neuroplausible.com/matlab I'm pretty sure. Either way my problems apply to Octave.
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I was thinking as a route out. But then smokers who switch to vaping stay hooked on nicotine...
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Python is incredibly easy to pick up.
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