It’s (still) extremely cumbersome to work out complicated math/physics problems on a computer, be it Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, or something else, so this does

It’s (still) extremely cumbersome to work out complicated math/physics problems on a computer, be it Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, or something else, so this doesn’t sound so crazy. Relatedly, you can’t easily comment code willy nilly even with 120 char lines, so paper still has a lot of freedom anyway