Please accept my apology. It seems I didn't read the final paragraph in your original post very well. I was not defending a weakness of Matlab, but instead mi

Please accept my apology. It seems I didn't read the final paragraph in your original post very well. I was not defending a weakness of Matlab, but instead misunderstood what you said. Indeed, I'm a pretty harsh Matlab critic myself because I know its ugly parts well. (edit: grammar)