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Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Insufficient data

> MATLAB?! I've heard MATLAB referred to as "FORTRAN meets APL in car crash",

Yup, but it's not as bad as IDL

> it is useful (very very useful) to prove an algorithm but not as quick as "proper code"

That doesn't stop people using it (or IDL) for production purposes

(IDL is a display language FFS. Asking it to perform complex numerical analysis is madness)

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