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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro... by Archit3ch on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:49PM (#22630417)
In my experience, the engineers who don't specialize in programming prefer MATLAB. Programmers will be comfortable in it, but will sooner reach for python etc.

Much like Excel, it's easier to get people to program if you can convince them it's not programming.

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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro... by qchris on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:37PM (#22631464)
I definitely agree in this about Excel (some things I've seen some 'people who don't like programming' do in Excel are positive mind-blowing), but just haven't seen that same thing in MATLAB. That could definitely be just because of a limit of my own experience, though, and your point makes a lot of sense.
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