... prototyping.¹

For final systems implementation, assembly language is still the most commonly used, followed by the C/C++ programming language.

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Unfortunately, there is not a standard definition of the matlab language, and so MATLAB and Octave are not 100% compatible, partly by choice. It is not hard to write for both, using only the compatible subset of the language.

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