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dhdc | 3 years ago
I genuinely hope that Octave can take off and trade blows with MATLAB face to face, but not sure if that will ever happen simply because of the amount of money MathWorks is pumping into developing toolboxes.
dhdc | 3 years ago
I genuinely hope that Octave can take off and trade blows with MATLAB face to face, but not sure if that will ever happen simply because of the amount of money MathWorks is pumping into developing toolboxes.
catchclose8919|3 years ago
No, its usage is just declining slower in those areas because ppl don't want unnecessary change introducing unnecessary defects, esp since safety and reliability matters a lot for some equipments, and also engineers spend time on smth else than learning new languages and frameworks.
In 20 years Matlab will be as legacy as Fortran is now, still some left but mostly forgone.
enriquto|3 years ago
what are you talking about? There's a lot of numerical code written (and actively developed) in Fortran today. If you are anywhere near numerical mathematics, you are running algorithms written in Fortran that somebody is maintaining.
dhdc|3 years ago
Not if MathWorks keep offering discounts to universities for putting MATLAB in the courses, gotta get those undergrads "hooked" early before graduating.
pjmlp|3 years ago
forgotpwd16|3 years ago
Disappointingly because modern Fortran is a nice language for numerical computing.
BeetleB|3 years ago
This is a joke, right?
In many academic disciplines that involve numerical work, the amount of Fortran code in use today greatly exceeds that of any of the rivals.
Professors were forced to use Fortran by their advisors when they were in school, so most of their code is in it. These professors are not going to allow their students to reinvent any wheels. And the cycle continues. To give you an idea of how extreme this phenomenon is - almost all the Fortran code out there in academia is still in Fortran 77.
bowsamic|3 years ago