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Yeah, that and calling languages "skills"... maybe it's just me, but if you know enough languages, picking up one more isn't that painful, usually (I'm making a
by sporkenfang 12y ago
Yeah, that and calling languages "skills"... maybe it's just me, but if you know enough languages, picking up one more isn't that painful, usually (I'm making an exception for MATLAB... which still pains me...).
- thearn4 12y agoI'm becoming more convinced over time that having engineers learn MATLAB as their first technical computing language really hurts them in the long run. You always end up in a state where you have to do very convoluted tricks to do anything that isn't straight up numerical linear algebra. There ends up being a lot of aversion where I work from some engineers towards the use of new non-MATLAB programming tools (even Python), I think because many simple believe that all general systems programming is going to be as convoluted.