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Re:Why I'm still using Python by prepend on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:43PM (#34190472)
> If only Mathematica was free, I think it would become the defacto language for scientists.

Of course. It’s one of the few languages that I think are worth it.

I’ve been waiting for Wolfram to open source it for 10 years as I can’t afford it, or really justify why my org should use it.

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Re:Why I'm still using Python by ur-whale on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:18PM (#34192236)
> I’ve been waiting for Wolfram to open source it for 10 years as I can’t afford it,

Wolframscript is free (not guaranteed to stay that way, as it isn't Open Source, but free for now).

It can AFAIK do pretty much all Mathematica can.

Only part missing is the Mathematica IDE/GUI/Notebook which I personally dislike profoundly anyways.

Best of all, since it's a batch tool, it can be integrated in a Makefile and/or data processing pipeline without that nasty GUI showing up at all.

https://www.wolfram.com/wolframscript/

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Re:Why I'm still using Python by abdullahkhalids on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:31AM (#34194208)
I believe this is only the language. Not the set of libraries that come with Mathematica. Without those, one cannot do a lot in terms of scientific computation.
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