If this were better written and had a proper sense of proportion, it could be good. But it's not, and it comes off like ranting. Next. E.g., here's a note fr

If this were better written and had a proper sense of proportion, it could be good. But it's not, and it comes off like ranting. Next. E.g., here's a note from the implementors of a probabilistic modeling toolkit, which prominently includes Kevin Murphy [http://code.google.com/p/pmtk3/wiki/WhyMatlab http://code.google.com/p/pmtk3/wiki/WhyMatlab] and here's a note from someone vacillating between several languages [http://jack-kelly.com/which_programming_language_for_my_disaggregation_system_matlab http://jack-kelly.com/which_programming_language_for_my_disa...], either of which shows more nuance and intelligence than the blog in the OP.