What are the most challenging aspects of using MATLAB What a

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Some of the major challenging aspects of using MATLAB are :

(i) MATLAB is actually a matrix lavoratory. So for MATLAB programming, one should be well versed in linear algebra, specially in operations on matrix.

(ii) Programming becomes hard in MATLAB in case of recursion, specially for generating even a small Fibonacci series.

(iii) Finding the value of function y=sin(x) using Taylor`s approximation is really a challenge in MATLAB as it requires much knowledge of loops, tests for convergence, concept of floating points numbers and a bit about interval reduction methods to test a series convergence.

(iv) Because of hard coding data into MATLAB coding files , these files are exceptionally long. Some of the .M files are even 4 GIG long. Even some of the data of such files is written in ASCII code that makes our code hard to read, maintain and understand.

(v) MATLAB does not support GLOBALS and EVAL. While using them in programming, code auther do not understand the scope of variables, they use , specially while passing them from one function to another. MATLAB users often string together MATLAB commands to get subsquent v ariables names to then use another EVAL statement to work with these variables. Thus it is really a chanllenge dealing such situations.