I didn’t realize that MATLAB and Java were members of the same category. I thought that MATLAB was a software program (like Microsoft Word), while Java was a programming language (like C++).
Matlab is a program, but it’s more like the Java virtual machine than like MS Word. Both the JVM and Matlab are able to execute arbitrary programs supplied as input. So it’s meaningful to talk about Matlab-the-language. The one difference is that Java is a standardized language, whereas Matlab-the-language is “whatever Matlab-the-program accepts these days”.
MATLAB is a programming language, and I have written programs in it (though it has been a while). I would definately prefer Java (or C#) for writing most general applications, but MATLAB is good for some math heavy stuff.
I didn’t realize that MATLAB and Java were members of the same category. I thought that MATLAB was a software program (like Microsoft Word), while Java was a programming language (like C++).
Matlab is a program, but it’s more like the Java virtual machine than like MS Word. Both the JVM and Matlab are able to execute arbitrary programs supplied as input. So it’s meaningful to talk about Matlab-the-language. The one difference is that Java is a standardized language, whereas Matlab-the-language is “whatever Matlab-the-program accepts these days”.
MATLAB is a programming language, and I have written programs in it (though it has been a while). I would definately prefer Java (or C#) for writing most general applications, but MATLAB is good for some math heavy stuff.