I'd tend to say Matlab :
- you don't learn to write good code
- if you start by learning Matlab, you tend to be stuck in Matlab
- it's heavy and ugly and expensive
- arrays start at 1

Octave > all

@RazorSh4rk it saved me a few times when I hadn't Matlab, but still the architecture is bad

Array start at 1. Done. Not using it anymore.

I had a boss who does his taxes using a prolog script he wrote. I'm positive I'm going to hear about him getting audited through the nose by the IRS one of these days.

@Gnonpi I did some research with Matlab 10+ years ago. However, I was used to other languages too much so I too used it incorrectly. On the other hand, a colleague of mine was a true expert, exploiting its true power: efficient matrix ops. It was really great to learn some of his tricks, speeding up some of the computer vision processes. He is now excellent at all kinds of languages, frameworks, tools.

So I don't think Matlab is that bad - like everything, it's just not meant for everything.

Nah matlab was a gem for me. All through uni it was solid for data wrangling. This was when python still had identity issues.

@nullable1 seriously! That reason made me promise to myself never to use matlab in my life

@nullable1 yes like what the fuck who starts at 1