www.dataminingblog.com: Why is Matlab the best language for data mining?

"While starting a new project a few days ago, I had to answer the
recurrent question: What language do I choose? In research, we have
the opportunity of choosing any language, free or not. This is usually
not the case in industry where the language can be fixed for many
reasons (price, customer choice, boss choice, same as existing system,
etc.)...."

http://dataminingresearch.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-is-matlab-best-language-for-data.html