There are so many programming languages and scripting languages to choose as well as calculation packages (matrix like ocateve and matlab or symbolic packages o

There are so many programming languages and scripting languages to choose as well as calculation packages (matrix like ocateve and matlab or symbolic packages or symbolic packages and I do not even know what others there are). The only problem nowadays is finding the best for you at a given time, but this is actually just plenty of choice and having choices has always been considered a Good Thing. I feel it is just nostalgia that is the writer's problem, not that there are no good packages/languages any more.