Features of Matlab

The two languages are not always compatible. Matlab in not only a programming language, but a programming environment as well. You can perform operations from the command line, as a sophisticated calculator. Or you can create programs and functions that perform repetitive tasks, just as any other computer language.

Following are the basic features of Matlab:

1. It is a high-level language for Numerical manipulations, and computation.
2. It provides built-in graphics for visualizing data and tools for creating custom plots.
3. Implementation of algorithms.
4. Provides tools for building applications with custom graphical interfaces.
5. Interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, Java, and FORTRAN.
6. It provides an interactive environment for iterative exploration, analyse data, visualization design and problem solving for scientific and engineering fields.
7. Modeling, simulation and prototyping.

Following are the Disadvantages of Matlab:

1. It uses a large amount of memory and on slow computers it is very hard to use.
2. It sits “on top” of Windows, getting as much CPU time as Windows allows it to have. This makes real-time applications very complicated.
3. It is not freeware.