> It's a little unfair to compare it [MATLAB] to something that came much later. You're certainly right that's it's not really a fair fight between the languag

> It's a little unfair to compare it [MATLAB] to something that came much later. You're certainly right that's it's not really a fair fight between the languages. WRT Octave, though, anyone for whom a MATLAB license is too expensive probably doesn't have the mountain of legacy code that would be required for me to justify staying with a technically and aesthetically less pleasant language.