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Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language by nkurz on Saturday July 27, 2013 @03:03AM (#6112105)
I'm not familiar with your commenting style. Is this straight up or dripping with sarcasm?
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Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language by sillysaurus on Saturday July 27, 2013 @03:07AM (#6112111)
Serious. Super serious.

No, really, Mathematica is great. It can do some amazing things and it's really easy to write reusable code for.

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Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language by zzleeper on Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:05AM (#6112306)
What advice or pointers would you give to start learning & using mma for real problems?

I tried to learn it a few times and it worked great for toy problems, but when I tried to write an entire script a la python/c/matlab, I failed miserably

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Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language by xrt on Saturday July 27, 2013 @04:45AM (#6112269)
My favorite example. The chosen answer to the "Where's Waldo?" solution is 7 lines long. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...
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Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language by maurits on Saturday July 27, 2013 @06:14AM (#6112412)
The solution is basically a cross correlation in a colour channel between the image and a zebra pattern. That can be done in a few lines in more than one language.

Also, 7 lines is hardly a good metric to judge the general effectiveness of an environment or language.

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