History of MATLAB
The first version of MATLAB, which stands for "Matrix Laboratory," did not include a programming language. It was a straightforward interactive matrix calculator created in Fortran in the late 1970s using about a dozen subroutines from the LINPACK and EISPACK matrix software libraries. Only 71 reserved words and built-in functions were present. Only by making changes to the Fortran source code and recompiling it was it possible to extend it. When MATLAB was released as a for-sale item in 1984, the programming language first debuted. User functions, toolboxes, and visuals were added to the calculator during its reimplementation in C. The IBM PC and its clones were the first platforms to support it; Unix workstations and the Apple Macintosh quickly followed. MATLAB really does best for solving computational problems in math and engineering. Especially when you have to use a lot of functions in your solving process, or if you have a nonlinear equation that must be iteratively solved. [MATLAB] can also perform things like integration and derivation on your equations that you put into it.
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