Took a class on neural nets once upon a time and all the prerequisites had been taught in C/C++ but the professor insisted on teaching in Matlab because they didn't know C/C++.

That's sane according to me

@bdhobare then it's a damn good thing you're not in academia.

@binhex I have trouble imagining a cursus where students are studying neural networks but are limited to a language ? Are you learning C or are you learning to program ?
Plus, I'm not sure you'd really appreciate using C for learning about neural networks :/

@willol either you've never studied neural nets or you're completely missing the point. C++ is computationally superior to Matlab and by the way the standard template library does have support for matrix like data structures - AKA vectors.

I support @willol here.The point is to learn neural nets...and according to me the language is not the most important factor.You are probably the one missing the point here dude :(

Plus if you are good at C the way you sound​ then converting the code to C shouldn't be a problem.
And btw here are a few points:
1.MATLAB is also written in C/C++
2.Matlab can convert the code to C++ for you.

First off I never said I was "good" at C. Second just because Matlab is written in C++ doesn't mean it's a decent environment to work in. It's a shite tool & rather than enjoy learning neural nets I had to grapple dealing with Matlab crashing half the bloody time. To each their own mate.

Sorry dude then, bad Professor