Re:GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numeric...
by type0 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:20AM
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I cringe every time that some engineering friend mentions how they has been programming an application with MATLAB. And next time the problem arises this "application" is not applicable anymore. Some manager types do not even realize that there's such a thing as technical debt.
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Re:GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numeric...
by atemerev on Saturday January 19, 2019 @07:06AM
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In financial modeling, which is one of the primary applications of MATLAB, you generally throw away your code in 1-2 years anyway (unless it is a generic library that can exist for decades).
MATLAB is a tool for research, not engineering. In research, you check hypotheses; you write a lot of throwaway code. The 0.1% of validated models that end up in production can be rewritten in other languages, but nothing replaces the fast turnaround time of MATLAB. Or similarly organized R Studio.