I don't know much about biology or Matlab, but this seems to be a common refrain. *XXXXXists make huge breakthrough on YYYYY* "I can't believe they us

I don't know much about biology or Matlab, but this seems to be a common refrain. *XXXXXists make huge breakthrough on YYYYY* "I can't believe they used programming language Z!" Domain specialists generally have more market leverage than the random programmer geek that scoffs at their "primitive" tools, and the code they write is there to do a job, not satisfy the peculiar preferences of a specialist in some other domain (like programming). Now, when programmers work to make domain specialists' job easier, that gets some attention; thus the tidal levels of interest in MDA, DSLs, and so on.