Matlab is a silly language

plot(record{3}.nEvals,record{3}.objec)

does not work (I get a colorful straight line).

o = record{3}.objec;
n = record{3}.nEvals;
plot(n,o)

works: I get the curve I'm looking for.

Other concerns: I'd like to pass objects by reference, and avoid implementing my own data structures (List anyone?).

I'm hoping to switch to NumPy this summer. They say the syntax is remarkably similar, and I'd mostly only have to worry about array bounds (Matlab counts from 1, Python from 0).

trace.out, I miss you

I miss having a library that supports tracing the execution at varying levels of detail... so that when you run the program, you can set the dial anywhere between "verbose" and "silent" and/or press some buttons regarding what always/never prints... without resulting in awful-looking code.

An added benefit is that if you always use trace.out rather than the direct system call (System.out), you never waste time searching for the line that's printing something.

Matlab cell nightmare

Incumbent is a cell-array containing 149 vectors (each one 512-dimensional).

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