matlab was originally released as a fortran library (pre 1.0), so it keeps a lot of that heritage even though it&#x27;s probably c&#x2F;c++ now: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mathworks.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;newsletters&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-origins-of-matlab.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mathworks.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;newsletters&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-or...</a>