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I found it more weird that he specifically mentioned that the model was being developed in MATLAB, but didn't mention any other details. To me, that sounded a little like saying "Anna and the others are writing a paper about AI risk on an Asus Eee and Google Docs".
What I took away from the mention of MATLAB is that the model is expressed as a computer program, as opposed to just talked about, and that this requires a certain level of rigor. But yeah, I don't care so much that it is MATLAB rather than Java.
I didn't realize that MATLAB and Java were members of the same category. I thought that MATLAB was a software program (like Microsoft Word), while Java was a programming language (like C++).
Matlab is a program, but it's more like the Java virtual machine than like MS Word. Both the JVM and Matlab are able to execute arbitrary programs supplied as input. So it's meaningful to talk about Matlab-the-language. The one difference is that Java is a standardized language, whereas Matlab-the-language is "whatever Matlab-the-program accepts these days".
MATLAB is a programming language, and I have written programs in it (though it has been a while). I would definately prefer Java (or C#) for writing most general applications, but MATLAB is good for some math heavy stuff.