Having worked with both Matlab and VBA, it's hard to say for me what is worse. Nowadays, whenever I have to do something (UI, non-numeric data processing) in M

Having worked with both Matlab and VBA, it's hard to say for me what is worse. Nowadays, whenever I have to do something (UI, non-numeric data processing) in Matlab, I tend to write a Matlab-shim that calls a Java-component (the Java interaction is fortunately very nice). The mere fact that one gets things done with less hassle in Java than with a scripting language is a quite damning verdict for said scripting language.