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by ktpsns 2670 days ago
> It's fairly obvious that MATLAB started its life as fronted to FORTRAN.

I second that and there are quite a number of scientists which use MATLAB and FORTRAN side by side.

I would extend this statement: MATLAB feels like a REPL to FORTRAN while Mathematica like a REPL/library to/for LISP.