MATLAB is basically a REPL over a collection of old-school Fortran libraries. So it is far from an alternative to Fortran. See the HOPL history for the backgro

MATLAB is basically a REPL over a collection of old-school Fortran libraries. So it is far from an alternative to Fortran. See the HOPL history for the background of MATLAB: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386331 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386331 EDIT: fixed paper link