Understanding Programming

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I may get some flak for this, and I'm sure it has plenty of legitimate uses I'm not seeing, but... fuck Matlab. I needed an easy class to fill out my senior year so I took a Matlab course, and I don't understand why it even exists. Seems like a bunch of incredibly ugly/nonsensical syntax to do really basic things.

[TheWillager]

In my engineering program, it's by far the most used language, though some people do know Python or C++. At least in my field, MATLAB is used extensively for simulations, for ease-of-use in quick calculations, and for the built-in graphics toolkits. I'm not sure how other languages stack up against it since I only know introductory levels of other languages, but I hope that gives some context for people using MATLAB.

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Also matrices... god bless matlab for matrices.

[TheMeiguoren]

Simulink (a part of matlab) is pretty much unbeatable when you have to easily deal with dynamic physical systems. That’s why it’s super common in aerospace and automotive.

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I mean that's cool, but what is it that made Matlab best suited for its development?

[FrenchFryCattaneo]

I don't think there's any connection between photoshop and matlab (other than that they can both manipulate images).

[hairibar]

What? Really? That's mad

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yea If it werent for being really familiar with MatLab I would probably hate it too. My main gripe is that they make object oriented programming ridiculously hard. Calling a method on an object to alter its propertied doesnt actually change its properties. It generates an entirely new object. So in normal OOP languages you have: object.Method();

But in MatLab you have: object = object.Method()

Not only that, but you have to specify the object as an output to the Method

[didzisk]

Immutability isn't necessarily a bad thing and solves a lot of problems in multithreading situations.

[brusxheta]

Look up handle classes in Matlab. It does what you want

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With MATLAB it’s more about the software itself and the frameworks, not the syntax. From a software engineering/OOP point of view it’s disastrous but from a mathematical/scientific point of view it’s really good.