As an avid user of Mathematica, I have been also partly annoyed by the language. I find that getting something (complex) to work takes much longer than ideally

As an avid user of Mathematica, I have been also partly annoyed by the language. I find that getting something (complex) to work takes much longer than ideally needed due to complex syntax. It would take still longer with other tools for mathematical problems, so I cannot really be complaining. I "may" have discovered a language that seems better Mathematica: Modelica [1]. It turns out that Wolfram itself recently purchased a Modelica add-on to Mathematica, which it now markets as its new SystemModeler product [2]. Note that while the Modelica language is not intended towards general-purpose computations, I find the core concepts behind the language to be valid beyond its intended purposes. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelica [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_SystemModeler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_SystemModeler