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>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.
by 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 agoA 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 agoPerl 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 agoIncredible 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.