I moved from Matlab to Python in grad school once my thesis program got too big. It's open, which beats Wolfram. You don't have to manage memory, which beats C/

I moved from Matlab to Python in grad school once my thesis program got too big. It's open, which beats Wolfram. You don't have to manage memory, which beats C/C++. And it has a lot less boilerplate than System.out.println('Java').