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I loved mathematica during university. Gorgeous math notation written with quick hotkeys, so I never needed Latex. And it computed in that form, so I never need
by geor9e 2y ago
I loved mathematica during university. Gorgeous math notation written with quick hotkeys, so I never needed Latex. And it computed in that form, so I never needed to code in ASCII. I'd do most of my math/engineering/physics homeworks in it. I would have paid for this back then for sure. Sadly, I rarely need to open mathematica anymore, in the world of real life employment.
- ata_aman 2y agoSame here, truly the most intuitive analytics program. The notation made me want to use it every day. I loved the animations/charts you can produce.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWhy is that? Does it lack features for real life usage? Or is it too expensive?
- geor9e 2y agoIt's probably the fact that it costs money at all. Python libraries and Jupyter notebooks can technically do a lot of things for free, so even rich tech companies just default to the free option. Getting approval for paid software is a huge pain in the butt. Also, the fact that it doesn't use simple ASCII character code is probably frowned upon since you can't diff it in a version management system for code review. I do have a personal copy and I definitely do open it up when I really want to solve a hard mathematical problem quickly. Then I translate it after the fact to whatever corporate language I was supposed to solve it with.