> It tends to give its users bad habits with respect to structuring code is what I observe. MATLAB is _approachable_ to engineers who don't give crap about pro

> It tends to give its users bad habits with respect to structuring code is what I observe. MATLAB is _approachable_ to engineers who don't give crap about programming, which often results in horrendous codebases (to be fair, I've observed the same, if not worse, with non-programmer's made Python) > It seems to lack data structures that are quite pervasive in modern programming practise. This however, is simply not true. MATLAB has many constructs to manipulate tabular and timeseries data in a very efficient way. It also has perfectly capable OOP, which allows building very large applications while staying sane. MATLAB has evolved tremendously in the last 15 years, and most critics I read, while valid if you compared a circa 2005 version to current Python + numpy + pandas + scipy, are usually just uninformed.