Matlab

Matlab is a shitty scripting language for those who wants something unstable, slow, expansive, leaking memory and with no flexibility because they can’t be bothered to learn a real scripting language.

Matlab can also be used to draw jews.

Particularities

• Breaking with conventions, all arrays start at index 1.
• Double precision floating point is the default type for everything.
• Two-dimensional arrays can be accessed by a single index, but it iterates over rows before column, for some reason.

ex:
>> x=[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]

x =

    1     2     3
    4     5     6
    7     8     9
>> x(4)

ans =

    2
>> isinteger(x)

ans =

     0

>> isfloat(x)

ans =

     1
>> x(0)
 ??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

Matlab in engineering classes

Engineering students are also unfunny.

In many engineering classes, Matlab is taught as an introduction to scientific programming without much success to the hopeless undergrads. The most successful of them will end up writing programs that will later have to be completely rewritten in another language by real programmers. As the students are hip, a wave of shitty meme has been created, documenting their collective failure.

GUIDE

A GUIDE GUI in action.

The only worthy aspect of Matlab is the ability to make ugly Visual Basic looking GUI with very few efforts that continue to work after dozens of errors, a very useful feature for lazy fucks that can’t be bothered to fix their code.

Octave

Octave is the even slower open-source clone. Don’t bother.

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