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have you ever seen MATLAB code?

• ashtonkem 6y ago
  That’s actually a pretty good argument for banning such code from the criminal justice system. The idea that unreadable code is deciding who gets locked up is really worrying.
  • deathlight 6y ago
    This thread makes me sad because when I was taught and used matlab we had strong pressures to properly comment and document our code to make it legible (if only to our own future selves). It feels almost criminal to not do that in these circumstances.
  • cozzyd 6y ago
    and depending on which MATLAB version they run it in, it might have completely different results if they haven't tested carefully...
    • willis936 6y ago
      This is not my experience. Could you share an example?
      • cozzyd 6y ago
        well, this script, for example, gave me all sorts of fits trying to run on the then-new version of MATLAB I tried it on: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEJS_v1_0.html http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEJS_v1_0.html
        • willis936 6y ago
          Ah okay. I thought you meant numerical changes, which would be reason to not trust a language. Mathworks has broken some legacy support in the past, but they have slowed down on that practice. They used to threaten that dll loading would go away “in a future version of MATLAB” but have since backpedaled on that. My biggest issue is writing code that leverages cool new features (especially timetables) but some people I work with never update their IDE.