Difference between plot and scatter matlab

Question

Consider the following data points and plots

a = randi(50,1,200);
b = randi(50,1,200);
figure;scatter(a,b,'.')
figure;plot(a,b,'.')

When we run the following code , we receive exactly the same plots for a against b , my question is why should we even use or to rephrase again in what conditions scatter plot has advantage over plot function ? because plot seem to have more formatting options that the scatter function

Answer 1

plot has a concept of the order of the points mattering so you can use it to make line plots. plot also allows you to specify the input x and y values as either vectors or matrices or allows you to input multiple x and y vectors both of which allow you to plot multiple series at once:

whereas scatter only allows you to input 1 x and 1 y and they both have to be vectors. However, 'scatter' allows you to specify an area and colour vector to affect the points individually i.e.