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MATLAB

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MATLAB is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks, allowing matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. Although MATLAB is intended primarily for numeric computing, it is fundamentally an interpreted scripting language, and MATLAB was created by Cleve Moler in the late 1970s.

Facts
First Released
1984 1
Paradigm
Multi paradigm: imperative, numeric computing environment 2
Significance
A proprietary numeric computing environment with more than four million users worldwide as of 2020. 2
Classification
License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
FAQs

Is MATLAB a free language and how widely is it used?

MATLAB is proprietary and commercial from MathWorks. It has had a paid release since 1984 and more than four million users as of 2020.

No. MATLAB is a proprietary programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks, so it is not open source. It was first released as a commercial product in 1984 at the Automatic Control Conference in Las Vegas, and as of 2020 it had more than four million users worldwide.
Connections

Follows Typing Discipline

Weak Typing, Concepts
Source Wikipedia: MATLAB

In Field

Source Wikipedia: MATLAB

Influenced

Invented By

Cleve Moler, Pioneers
Source Wikidata: MATLAB

Licensed Under

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Developed By

Also in Business Atlas: the developer of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikidata: MATLAB
  • Wikidata Q169478, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q169478 P571 (inception)
  • Wikidata Q169478 P275 (license)
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2. Wikipedia: MATLAB
Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section, Commercial development subsection
    MATLAB was first released as a commercial product in 1984 at the Automatic Control Conference in Las Vegas.
  • Lead section
    is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks
  • Article body, adoption figure
    As of 2020, MATLAB has more than four million users worldwide.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory) is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks.
  • Follows Typing Discipline: Weak Typing, Typing
    MATLAB is a weakly typed programming language because types are implicitly converted.
  • In Group: Statistical and Numeric Computing Languages, Lead
    MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory) is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks.
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