<p>No kidding. I'm currently a senior in high school and I did a science project on steganography in my Junior year. But now that I've gotten acquainted with Matlab, I've realized I could have completed everything in that science project with Matlab in practically 3-5 hours.</p>
<p>And image manipulation is only one of the countless applications to which Matlab can be applied. It's not the most efficient language ever, but for research, it's the most human-development-time-efficient of all.</p>