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A comment on Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982).

Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by billfruit on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:32AM (#19510350)
Perhaps how much of MATLAB is influenced by Pascal,etc, but it is particularly clumsy and inelegant, as if it stuck in the 80's, not to mention proprietary, I wait for the day when we can move out of it.
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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by creatornator on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:02PM (#19514150)
Have you checked out Octave? They target (bug-for-bug?) compatibility with MATLAB, so most pure MATLAB code will port over with no edits necessary. It's also a GNU project
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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982) by billfruit on Saturday March 30, 2019 @03:42PM (#19531347)
Well then all complaints about the MATLAB language also apply to Octave.
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