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Someone down-voted me just for asking. I have no idea about any of this stuff and I was just genuinely curious. Apparently people are pretty polarized about Mat

by bronz 11y ago

Someone down-voted me just for asking. I have no idea about any of this stuff and I was just genuinely curious. Apparently people are pretty polarized about Matlab. Thanks for explaining that to me.

omginternets 11y ago
>Someone down-voted me just for asking. People take the internet way too seriously :/ >Apparently people are pretty polarized about Matlab Yes, very much so. Much of the contention comes from the obscene licensing prices coupled with the fact that its a terrible language.
- tormeh 11y ago
  A terrible language with awesome libraries. In the language wars, libraries are king. I hate Matlab, but I've got to admit that the toolboxes are without peer.
  - pmoriarty 11y ago
    Perl had tons of awesome libraries. Yet Python, Ruby, and Go, which had virtually none compared to Perl when they started still became very popular, and are arguably more popular than Perl now.
- daveguy 11y ago
  Incredible libraries, yes. But you may want to check out python with numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc. There are bundles like python (x,y) that bring them all together. Probably still want to stick with python 2.7 though (as most of scientific computing still does). This removes the tedious stumbling block that is forced unicode.
- Maken 11y ago
  >obscene licensing prices You can always use Octave.
david-given 11y ago
It may be nitpicking, but the phrase you used ('Why do you think X?') is very common for making passive-aggressive contradictions. ("I have a smart cat." "Why do you think cats are smart?") If you've been hanging around the internet for a while you tend to start seeing an unspoken 'you idiot' on the end of it, even when it's not there. You could well have been downvoted more or less on reflex because of that.
7Z7 11y ago
I'm guessing the downvotes have nothing to do with MatLab and more to do with your choice of phrasing (regardless of your actual intent). It reads less like you are asking a question, and more like "well yeah, duh, of course that's why they did that".
- bronz 11y ago
  I appreciate your honest feedback but I have to disagree. The article was about software. The comments: > (him) This software was written in Matlab. Here is a link. > (me) Why do you think they wrote it in Matlab? I really don't understand how the intention of my question is ambiguous to anyone. But luckily this issue is completely trivial anyway I suppose.
taco_emoji 11y ago
I think they downvoted you because the phrasing is ambiguous between "what evidence do you have that it's written in Matlab" vs. "why do you think the creators chose Matlab" and they interpreted it as the former.

by bronz 11y ago

Someone down-voted me just for asking. I have no idea about any of this stuff and I was just genuinely curious. Apparently people are pretty polarized about Matlab. Thanks for explaining that to me.

omginternets 11y ago

>Someone down-voted me just for asking. People take the internet way too seriously :/ >Apparently people are pretty polarized about Matlab Yes, very much so. Much of the contention comes from the obscene licensing prices coupled with the fact that its a terrible language.

tormeh 11y ago
A terrible language with awesome libraries. In the language wars, libraries are king. I hate Matlab, but I've got to admit that the toolboxes are without peer.
- pmoriarty 11y ago
  Perl had tons of awesome libraries. Yet Python, Ruby, and Go, which had virtually none compared to Perl when they started still became very popular, and are arguably more popular than Perl now.
daveguy 11y ago
Incredible libraries, yes. But you may want to check out python with numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc. There are bundles like python (x,y) that bring them all together. Probably still want to stick with python 2.7 though (as most of scientific computing still does). This removes the tedious stumbling block that is forced unicode.
Maken 11y ago
>obscene licensing prices You can always use Octave.

david-given 11y ago

It may be nitpicking, but the phrase you used ('Why do you think X?') is very common for making passive-aggressive contradictions. ("I have a smart cat." "Why do you think cats are smart?") If you've been hanging around the internet for a while you tend to start seeing an unspoken 'you idiot' on the end of it, even when it's not there. You could well have been downvoted more or less on reflex because of that.

7Z7 11y ago

I'm guessing the downvotes have nothing to do with MatLab and more to do with your choice of phrasing (regardless of your actual intent). It reads less like you are asking a question, and more like "well yeah, duh, of course that's why they did that".

bronz 11y ago
I appreciate your honest feedback but I have to disagree. The article was about software. The comments: > (him) This software was written in Matlab. Here is a link. > (me) Why do you think they wrote it in Matlab? I really don't understand how the intention of my question is ambiguous to anyone. But luckily this issue is completely trivial anyway I suppose.

taco_emoji 11y ago

I think they downvoted you because the phrasing is ambiguous between "what evidence do you have that it's written in Matlab" vs. "why do you think the creators chose Matlab" and they interpreted it as the former.