If you are a regular reader of the MATLAB Usenet newsgroup, comp.soft-sys.matlab, found on the MathWorks User Community page, you are probably familiar with repeated advice to not use the MATLAB... read more >>

In MATLAB 7, Release 14, we enhanced two useful and often used functions, sort and find in part because we noticed some common coding patterns in our MATLAB code and customers'. With the older... read more >>

Use dynamic field references, the notation .(), where possible, instead of setfield, getfield, and eval.
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In MATLAB 6.5 (Release 13), we introduced dynamic field references into MATLAB. What... read more >>

One of my favorite things about MATLAB is that I can write a mathematical algorithm using the same notation appearing in a technical book or paper. For algorithms that are naturally matrix-based,... read more >>