Hi David, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > If you want to put students off of using Mathematica, I can suggest a very > simple way. Suggest they look on job sites like phdjobs, monstir.com, and > search for the number of jobs requiring Mathematica skills. Then do the same > for MATLAB and Python. Basically you will find 100's of jobs requiring > MATLAB and Python skills, but very few for Mathematica. (Of course, the > vast majority of the Python jobs are not scientific, so the comparison with > Python is less fair, but a comparison with MATLAB is IMHO very fair.)
Some numerical computation jobs I saw about a year ago (in Australia), but not advertised online, required the applicants to have a working knowledge of *Octave*, the Matlab clone. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
