Oh I agree, I only complain because I use it. By the way it's not Matlab but MATLAB. The name presumably comes from the Hindi exclamation for when you don't understand something.
Hahaha. I'm Indian, so that joke is familiar :)
They should have just stuck a question mark at the end of it to represent all the leet programmers who couldn't fathom how a language could possibly dare to be 1-indexed.