Matlab is not a programmer's language, it's a mathematician's language. It is altered for those who aren't as familiar with programming to make it easy to run complex mathematical problems. But to those who do know programming, there are usually better languages to use.
"Scientific computations" is a very general term, and include huge ranges of applications which are decidedly scientific and would benefit enormously from OO. One example of this is engineering simulation.
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