Any Matlab folk here ?

pkfox

A contract I'm interested in states ; must know or will train you in Matlab, whilst I know what it is I've never used it - anyone here used it ?

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Kenneth Haugland

It is commonly used in Universities and I did use it quite a lot there, but I am no expert. As a programming language, it reminded me of C++/C#. Doing math related stuff was brilliant, with tons of different build in functions. Normal programming with functions, GUI etc, felt a little strange and quirky to me at least.

Lost User

Yes I have come across it often. It was generally used for prototyping complex numerical algorithms. So in image and signal processing it is the perfect way to test an idea. I never became an expert but found it easy to learn and use. A lot of new hires straight out of university were very proficient and this proved quite useful. Once you know how to use it you may find it is often the first port of call for prototyping so the offer to teach you is a good one.

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Aless Alessio

I did use it during university. Once you get used to its syntax and environment, you can do amazing things. Simulations, predictions, optimizations are way easier and faster to do in Matlab. While UIs are a little poor and hackish. It is mainly a "scriptish" environment

rbuchana

Use it almost every day.

Kyle Moyer

I used it college, ages ago. Perhaps it's gotten better as the years have passed, but I found it both powerful and stunted at the same time. You could/can do some insanely powerful things with it, but things as simple as formatting output were unnecessarily complicated. I can't speak to how it is now though; I certainly hope it has gotten easier to use.