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How stupid is Matlab?

Matlab Introduction from MathWork

Matlab intro

It's for Math, but

  • Array indexing starts from 1. Ask your professors from Electrical Engineering which number signal indexing starts at? They will probably open textbook to show or to say it's 0. Or ask your Applied Math professors where is the axis's origin at?
  • Functions are defined after being called in script. I'm pretty sure that we define/state a formula first, then we use it when doing math on paper.

It's for Graph, yeah.

It's for Programming, but

More proofs of how stupid is Matlab:

Matlab vs Python comparison page.

The following picture is captured from MathWork's page about comparing to Python.

Matlab vs Python

Here you see they wrote 2 sentences describing how awesome their products are. And they just wrote 1 sentence describing Python. Then they went on how it's suitable for engineering and scientits from other fields other than computer science.

I'm pretty sure that is not how you should compare things, MathWork. Let take an example Matlab vs Python by RealPython in which people fully compare things feature by feature.

Matlab pricing

It's stupidly expensive if you are a scientist in a country that isn't rich as top economic countries.

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