MATLAB - BIG SOFTWARE LANGUAGE

Introduction

MATLAB is a software package for high-performance numerical
computation visualization. It provides an interactive environment with hundreds of
built-in functions for technical computation, graphs & animations. MATLAB is a
high performance interactive software package for scientific and engineering
computation. MATLAB integrates numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal
processing and graphics in an easy-to-use environment where problems and
solutions are expressed just as they are written mathematically. It stands for
MATrix LABoratory. It is developed by The Mathworks, Inc. It is a programming
language.
MATLAB is both a powerful computational environment and programming
language that easily handles matrix and complex arithmetic. It is a large software
package that has many advanced features built-in, and it has become a standard
tool for many working in science or engineering disciplines. Among other things, it
allows easy plotting in both two and three dimensions. Matlab has two different
methods for executing commands: interactive mode and batch mode. In interactive
mode, commands are typed (or cut-and-pasted) into the ‘command window’. In
batch mode, a series of commands are saved in a text file (either using Matlab’s
built-in editor, or another text editor such as Emacs) with a ‘.m’ extension. The
batch commands in a file are then executed by typing the name of the file at the
Matlab command prompt. The advantage to using a ‘.m’ file is that you can make
small changes to your code (even in different Matlab sessions) without having to
remember and type the entire set of commands. Also, when using Matlab’s built-in
editor, there are simple debugging tools that can come in handy when your
programs start getting large and complicated.