[kenty]

I don't doubt the historical usage but try deploying a Matlab program, The licensing terms and the hassle of the whole runtime are horrible and I'm not aware of any algorithm or location which could not be with reasonable ease implemented via an open language.

[Lensos]

No no. MATLAB is used A LOT in industry, today, wherever advanced & embedded control is needed. Even the latest ASML chipmaking machines run on a lot of code (actively) developed in MATLAB. For real-time motion control, MATLAB+Simulink is very powerful in deploying to embedded systems through code generation with the MATLAB Coder toolboxes (which automatically turns MATLAB/Simulink stuff into C/C++). No horrible MATLAB runtime business needed then.