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Mathematica has the best CAD capabilities for many/most tasks, but the language is rather horrible. E.g. code can not be commented, the program state is difficu

Mathematica has the best CAD capabilities for many/most tasks, but the language is rather horrible. E.g. code can not be commented, the program state is difficult to manage or even reset, it's very tied to the Mathematica "notebook". And it's quite idiosyncratic. I sometimes have to use it where Sympy fails, and every time it's almost constant WTF. And it's very proprietary and very expensive.

baq 3y ago
Note it's free on the raspberry pi! https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ If you have one collecting dust in a drawer, I'd heartily recommend checking it out.
- lispm 3y ago
  check the license, though. https://www.wolfram.com/legal/agreements/wolfram-mathematica-raspberry-pi/ https://www.wolfram.com/legal/agreements/wolfram-mathematica...
sampo 3y ago
> code can not be commented Mathematica has a C-like syntax for comments (* this is a comment *) but it doesn't have C++ style comments // This is a C++ comment
- tromp 3y ago
  Actually those are Pascal-like comments. Pascal uses (* ... *) for arbitrary comments as well as { ... } for single line comments.
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- jampekka 3y ago
  I stand corrected. For some reason I hadn't figured this out earlier even though I tried to find it.
Iwan-Zotow 3y ago
> And it's very proprietary and very expensive get free kernel and wljs notebook