Ah yes, great point. I suppose that ties into the whole trade off one has in using Matlab in the first place: locking in to a proprietary commerical product to

Ah yes, great point. I suppose that ties into the whole trade off one has in using Matlab in the first place: locking in to a proprietary commerical product to spend more time on problem-space work and less on managing memory and I/O etc. You get to pay up front to get working on your problem more quickly, and you pay again later on with a potential lack of flexibility. I have been burned by such a lock in before in a personal project where the commerical make an app easily SDK was discontinued and left in the dust with all the developers left holding their collective unupdateabale apps in their hands.