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Quick: Before TMW deletes it... check out v.good's review of Marco's most recent submission: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23968

It says:
"Well I tried a fairly polite comment but it was deleted under the new FEX censorship regime. Instead I'll just be completely blunt.  
This program sucks. This author sucks. The FEX sucks. The people imposing chinese communist style censorship suck. The people defending cheaters and spammers suck. The people mucking up the site with contest files suck. The contests themselves suck. Anyone hired by TMW after 2006 sucks.  
When Cleve was involved in the site this kind of thing never happened. The FEX was a happy academic place. Like a library. There was reverence for good code. There was scorn for hacks and poor programming. It very closely resembled the kind of academic environment experienced in engineering school. Now TMW has hired some clueless Gen-X people who have brought their twisted sense of fairness along with their technical incompetence to the administration of the FEX.  
Congratulations. You've turned a legitimate technical programmer into a rogue spammer and cheat. In the same span of time you've turned a rogue spammer and cheat into a legitimate technical programmer."

I couldn't have said it better myself. Based on the last two sentences, it appears that we are all becoming Marco and he and his ilk are becoming us. That's enough to make a person either take up drinking or simply to drop out of the FEX like I have.