Michael Vanier wrote:
I have enough problems convincing people to learn Scheme. I've
even had people beg me to teach them Matlab as a first programming
language, because that is the only language that they needed to get their
work done. Telling them that Matlab's programming language is a creeping
horror doesn't sway them at all.
Now, why so? I won't defend the Matlab language too strongly, but I used it for teaching scientific computations, I exploited the vectorized expressions, I used objects, and even a lot of functional constructs. I don't see any reason to call it a creeping horror. It is quite homogeneous and simple, and is decently interfaced.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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