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I don't mean to go all Stallman on you, but MATLAB is the devil's software.

• eigenhombre 6y ago
  Why?
  • ptman 6y ago
    Let me guess: because it is proprietary, has a terrible license management experience and there is an open source alternative: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
    • dhagz 6y ago
      I was going to say because it starts array indexes at 1.
      • snicker7 6y ago
        Most "scientific" languages have indexes starting in 1 and/or configurable (R, Julia, Fortran, APL). In some applications (finite element methods), it makes sense for indexes to start at negative numbers.
        • SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
          Indexes starting at 1 is good. Offsets starting at 0 is good. Confusing offsets for indexes leads to off-by-one errors. C's "array" notation is taught as being an index, when it's actually an offset.
    • anyfoo 6y ago
      If Octave were sufficient for me, I think I’d just use SciPy. But I want to use LiveScripts and several other things.
• lordgrenville 6y ago
  Eh, I think in a thread about org-mode that's an appropriate level of Stallman-ness.