In the last few decades, MATLAB language has set itself the standards of being a high-level language in digital and signal processing and has become the has become the de facto standard. It is used a lot for analysis as well as rapid prototyping. MATLAB is in fact a high-level language with an interactive environment and enables you to carry out intensive tasks faster compared with the traditional programming languages like C, C++, and Fortran.
MATLAB is a program that is interactive and serves as a convenient "laboratory'' for computations that involve matrices. It also provides easy access to the matrix software, which has been developed by the LINPACK and EISPACK projects. The program is designed and written in FORTRAN, to ready for installation using any operating system as a platform. It also permits interactive execution of programs in FORTRAN.
MATLAB has a number of features, which can be used for documenting, and sharing of work. It can be integrated with MATLAB code along with other languages and applications, and it also can distribute the MATLAB algorithms as well as applications.
MATLAB along with Octave are highly compatible programs when it comes to mathematical computations. However, they diverge when plots are used even though basic plots can easily be edited quickly so as to convert one version from or to the other. Octave's plotting features are based on something called ‘gnuplot.’ Though it is not possible to write a plot, which contains two or more subplots, and while it is capable of most common plot types compared to a single-page postscript file.
MATLAB can be used in a whole wide range of applications, including signal and communications, measurement, image processing, control design, test and financial modeling analysis, computational biology. Add-on toolboxes that are collections of a special-purpose MATLAB functions are available separately to extend the MATLAB environment to solve a few particular type of problems in the specified application areas. New functions that give access to more than about 200 routines of the HDF5 C API library and supporting the reading and writing of complex data types, the HDF5 data sub setting capabilities, and also HDF5 features.
MATLAB is also a scientific computing as well as visualization system. It is a powerful tool, which can be harnessed for numerical modeling along with analysis of mathematical and scientific problems. The Matlab language is also built on matrix/vector types of data that can be executed on an interactive mode, from a command window or a GUI or terminal window, and in batch files, like any other high-level programming language.
