Using MATLAB For Anything Except Maths

Question

I was reading about MATLAB and I'm so much curious on it. But I have some questions:

• Can I use it for anything except maths?
• Can you list some examples with links to the full code?

I know that the name of the language is very subjective, but I want to show for all that these languages used only for maths and statictics can do powerful things in maths and in other categorys too.

Answer 1

For starters, you can look at all the categories of user-created files that have been submitted on the MathWorks File Exchange. That gives a pretty good snapshot of the sorts of things people have used it for. Here's the list of general categories that the over 10,000 code submissions are divided into:

• Aerospace
• Algorithm Development
• Automotive
• Biotech and Pharmaceutical
• Chemistry and Physics
• Communications
• Control Systems
• Data Acquisition
• Development Environment
• Earth Sciences
• External Application Interface
• Financial Services
• Games
• Graphic User Interface Development
• Graphics
• Image and Video Processing
• Mathematical modeling
• Publications
• Simulation and Model-Based Design
• Statistics and Probability
• Test and Measurement