[PascLeRasc]

I had a few younger EE professors try to get us to use Python for our coursework just to get pushback from the status quo students talking about "but what about preparing us for industry??". It was pretty disappointing since Python's so much nicer than Matlab for signal processing IMO.

[ilayn]

What? The industry doesn't use matlab except a few big places. Of those, most are also now considering switching to Python. They need to get out there and do some polling.

[PascLeRasc]

My undergrad university was really involved with "heavy industry"-type companies for co-ops and recruiting, like utilities, chemical processing/manufacturing, and military-industrial for the 4.0 GPA kids. All the fields who offer you a gray cubicle to waste your life in while they kill the environment, and they're pretty resistant to changing anything. It was really unhealthy for getting a well-rounded engineering education.

[nitrogen]

I've been doing some hobby signal processing in Ruby just for the challenge and checking the results with Octave. Ruby is such a nice language, it's a shame it doesn't have anything like Python's scientific libraries.