title: MATLAB - Force quit (CTRL+C) not working?
body: <p>I run a pretty computationally expensive genetic algorithm with MATLAB. The code has been running for 3 whole days, and I am pretty sure it gets stuck somewhere, because it is not printing out the progress information for debugging purpose.</p>
  
  <p>I now wish to stop it. I did CTRL+C, but no luck. The bottom left of the window still displays "Busy".</p>
  
  <p>I cannot simply quit the whole MATLAB, because I need to find out where it gets stuck by inspecting the variables in the variable window.</p>
  
  <p>Given the CTRL+C is not working, how can I</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>stop the execution, OR</li>
  <li>save the variables for inspection purpose?</li>
  </ul>