Mathematica has always had a command line. MathKernel -script "foo.m" -noprompt As to Mathematica being a pain to write code for: I've found it to be a pr

Mathematica has always had a command line. MathKernel -script "foo.m" -noprompt As to Mathematica being a pain to write code for: I've found it to be a pretty nice language, certainly a far cry better designed than MATLAB.