Jacques Carette wrote:
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
Why do you seem so in awe of Mathematica?
Oh, well, I guess it is only the most powerful maths software ever written... no biggie. No, it is one of several. In very little time I can find 20 things
Andrew Coppin wrote: that Maple does better than Mathematica. In the same amount of time, I can find 20 things that Mathematica does better than Maple. [Actually, the most obvious is that its marketing is miles better; so good that it makes blind evangelists out of people who have not even tried the competitors].
If Wolfram want to claim that Mathematica has "redefined the face of computer science"... well I don't believe that for one second. If they want to claim it's a product that can do some amazing stuff... well I don't see much evidence to the contrary.
You got suckered by their marketing. Get your head out of the sand, and take a good look around what is available.
I looked, I didn't find anything interesting.