MATLAB Programming
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The founders of The MathWorks recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C. In response to that need, the founders combined their expertise in mathematics, engineering, and computer science to develop MATLAB®, a high-performance technical computing environment. MATLAB® combines comprehensive math and graphics functions with a powerful high-level language" (MathWorks Inc.).
Cleve Moler is Chairman and Chief Scientist at The MathWorks who, in addition to being the author of the first version of MATLAB, is one of the authors of the LINPACK and EISPACK scientific subroutine libraries created in the late 70's. LINPACK, which was written in FORTRAN, was a package of programs to be used for the solution of lenear systems and related problems. The goal of The MathWorks was to provide to students the ability to utilize those packages without having to write FORTRAN code.
Significant Language Features
MATLAB is a mathematical scripting language that looks very much like C++. Some features of the language are:
Sample Program
Source Code: (Hello World)
% Name: hellowor.m
% Purpose: Say "Hello World!" in two different ways
%
% Do it the good ol' fashioned way...command window
disp('Hello World!');
% Do it the new hip GUI way...with a message box
msgbox('Hello World!','Hello World!');
This program has been tested, it works perfectly without any errors or warnings.
This program demonstrates the text output function displaying the message "Hello world!".
