When getting an error from MATLAB, I don't get much information about other than the message below. So, I'm left to hunt through my code for the offending error, cut it down into small enough pieces to figure out what is going on, or just revert to using MATLAB. It would be nice to get a little more information like a descriptive string from MATLAB about the error.

"There was an error running the code:
...
Are you sure Matlab is started?"