<p>I <3 matlab. No, seriously. Toolboxes that compress hundreds of lines of codes into a single statement? You can't not like that power. It's not the most efficient thing out there in terms of memory usage and the like, but it gets the job done quickly.</p>
<p>The origins of Matlab - <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html</a></p>
<p>:D</p>