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Matlab is a programming language purpose-built for numerical computing. Data crunching, numbers, matrices, vectors, signal processing. These are topics of Matlab's domain. If these are what you work with, then Matlab may be for you.
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Matlab is created with the intention of programming for numerical computing. While this would be a great language to learn first for people in engineering, science, and math who want a language to suit their careers, people with other or more diverse aspirations may best look elsewhere.
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