The biggest gripe I have with matlab is that it teaches absolutely horrendous programming habits. Most of the graduate students that only used/learned matlab in

The biggest gripe I have with matlab is that it teaches absolutely horrendous programming habits. Most of the graduate students that only used/learned matlab in their studies (I'm in an engineering field) program everything into one big script which they copy around and change a couple of parameters. Now obviously you can do things properly in matlab, it's just matlabs structure encourages you not to (who thought that one function per file and no namespaces are a good idea?!) Students who used Python on the other hand typically have much better programming habits (not necessarily good), I think because of it's roots as a programming language first, you get much more exposed to programming paradigms when you learn it. The other thing I found weird was the complaint about matrixes objects being deprecated. After the addition of the '@' operator it is really the same as matlab, except their default is a matrix, while for numpy it's an array. As a side note the author complains about the '@', what about matlabs stupid decision to use the most easily overlooked ascii character for distinguishing between matrix and element wise operations. In my experience, almost all the time a matlab calculation returns weird or garbage results, the bug search is a "find the missing '.'