<p>God damn the ignorance here is astounding. Everyone’s just throwing out names and general opinions in an attempt to show off their petty knowledge.</p>
<p>Matlab not only refers to a nice set of tools, it <em>is</em> also a programming language.</p>
<p>VHDL is an incredibly awesome ‘language’ used to describe digital circuits, and synthesize them onto an FPGA, for example. Your code describes how a bunch of little look up tables and some other components are hooked up to each other. Allows you to make almost any digital circuit you can think of; even CPU cores.</p>
<p>And it all comes down to this: there is no programming language designed for EE & BME students… or any other engineering major.
You will not find companies that use just <em>one</em> single language for their projects either.</p>
<p>My recommendation is, if you’re looking forward to start programming to benefit your career, learn a C-like, statically typed language (Java, C++, bla bla), and learn a dynamic or scripting language (python stands out like none other).</p>
<p>Afterwards, learning another language is usually a week’s worth of effort.</p>