Thinking about heading into industry and pretty proficient in R. I'm wanting to add something else to my toolbox. The benefit of learning the language would have to be to make me better, not just so I can say i know the syntax. Both appear in a number of ads, below are some of my thoughts from what I have already found
Python:
Can interface immediately with trading platforms
Tons of machine learning algorithms
Hadoop support
Matlab:
Used more for modelling?
Don't really know much about it
Thanks for your thoughts