matlab is going to be a lot less verbose in part because it has language support for all sorts of things you want. Solving Ax=b is one line of matlab, and about ten lines of C if everything is already laid out perfectly for clapack. But it never is, so you have to write a ton more cruft. And it's easier to blow your own foot off, so you augment that with all sorts of declarations to typecheck and code to dynamically check that you probably aren't pulling the trigger on that shotgun aimed at your foot. Pretty soon you've got a kSLOC and its attendant expected 100 bugs.
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Date: 2008-09-12 04:32 am (UTC)