Yup. Actually, the same reasoning has to do with why I've got a few relational databases implented as Excel spreadsheets linked with hlookup() and vlookup() functions instead of being in a proper RDBMS -- there were just enough things I wanted to do that Excel handled more easily than the database managers I had handy at the time I started keying data in. (And then I hit the things that Excel doesn't do well either, and write a mini-rantlet like the one above.) Eventually I'll write my own data entry/manipulation front end and make it talk to MySQL or Postgress or something so I can have the efficiency of a proper DBMS, the power of SQL queries, and the "doesn't piss Glenn off" factor of a comfortable and powerful user interface for the data entry. But that's been on my to-do list for a while now.
Is MATLAB a collection of small, powerful tools you can link together in the UNIX cli tradition, or a big do-everything tool whose user interface involves a whole lot of small, powerful commands you can link together or script conveniently?
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Is MATLAB a collection of small, powerful tools you can link together in the UNIX cli tradition, or a big do-everything tool whose user interface involves a whole lot of small, powerful commands you can link together or script conveniently?