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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by Spivak on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:54PM (#19972725)
A ridiculously large number of people use Matlab as a tool. I can't think of a single engineer that doesn't curse its name regularly but I've yet to encounter any actual applications written in it.

It's Excel for engineers.

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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by gmueckl on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:44PM (#19974083)
I have seen people doing amazing and complex things with Matlab, including fancy GUIs and stuff. But it is almost exclusively used for internal tools as far as I know.
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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by new4thaccount on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:38PM (#19976256)
I think this often happens anytime there is a large amount of legacy software written by folks that had software has a tertiary skill on their tool belt.

The Matlab IDE is not bad though and is a lot like Python's Spyder IDE. Also, a lot of Matlab commands have fully browsable source provided I've been told.

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