> It's fairly obvious that MATLAB started its life as fronted to FORTRAN. I second that and there are quite a number of scientists which use MATLAB and FORTRAN

> It's fairly obvious that MATLAB started its life as fronted to FORTRAN. I second that and there are quite a number of scientists which use MATLAB and FORTRAN side by side. I would extend this statement: MATLAB feels like a REPL to FORTRAN while Mathematica like a REPL/library to/for LISP.