Mathematica has a uniformity about it.”Ĭleve’s ideas about what make a language usable “by normal people” are interesting. “What do you think about Mathematica?” Cleve responded, “Mathematica is APL for the 21st century. They told me, ‘That’s your program!’ I couldn’t recognize it.” APL is about being uniform about everything, but MATLAB “is a mishmosh of all kinds of things.” I wanted MATLAB to be understandable by normal people.” He said that someone once converted a program he’d written in MATLAB into APL. He said that he’s always seen MATLAB as “portable APL” because he used a traditional character set. There was no explicit tie to APL, but he saw the connections.
“Georgia Tech is a big MATLAB user!” We teach 1200 Engineering students a semester in MATLAB.Ĭleve developed MATLAB (in Fortran) as a Matrix Calculator (explicitly, a “MATrix LABoratory”) for his students. Last night, I got to ask the man who invented MATLAB, Cleve Moler, at the IEEE Computer Society Awards Dinner, where Cleve was named a “Computer Society Pioneer.” When I introduced myself as coming from Georgia Tech, he took notice. I have often described MATLAB as “ APL with a normal character set,” but I didn’t actually know anything about how MATLAB came to be or if there was any relationship.
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