Re:Mathematica home edition, finally. $300.
by pfedor on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:32AM
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A friend of mine who's a physicist claims that he's so used to Mathematica that he uses it for everyday scripting tasks, the way other people use Tcl or Perl.
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Re:Mathematica home edition, finally. $300.
by ph0rque on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @12:53PM
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I came across a web page made in mathematica once...
Re:Mathematica home edition, finally. $300.
by cturner on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @01:06PM
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Yeah - I met a chap at an openbase conference in 2005 that was using it for professional web-application development. I've been intrigued by the idea ever since. I'd be interested to hear more stories from people who really leverage it like this.
Re:Mathematica home edition, finally. $300.
by dreeves on Saturday February 14, 2009 @03:41PM
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I use mathematica for general scripting tasks. It takes a little hackery to do things like use it in a pipeline and such: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/mash/mash.pl