On 10/29/10 05:54 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
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.
I must admit I've not looked for Octave, though I suspect if you know MATLAB, an
employer would probably give you careful consideration for a job where they use
Octave.
Richard Fatemen was claiming the other day on sci.math.symbolic that Lisp was
popular, and gives this site showing it ranked #13 in computer languages
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&usg=AFQjCNEREt_OLAWOBo2-7ST7ALC9UUfDWg
I did a comparison on monstir.com of the jobs for the jobs for several
programming languages. Unfortunately for some there are over 1000 jobs and so
the exact number is unknown. But this is what I found.
"C programming language" > 1000
C++ > 1000
Python > 1000
PHP > 1000
C# > 1000
Javascript > 1000
"r statistics" - 671
matlab 657
Labview 288
SPSS 282
Objective C 122
Fortran 100
Pascal 81
Delphi 74
Mathematica 27
lisp - 10
HP Vee 3
Maxima 0
Macsyma 0
This shows 24 times as many jobs for MATLAB as Mathematica. Strange, but R is
even more popular than MATLAB, though only by a statistically insignificant amount.
I'm of the opinion that outside academia, there is not a lot of call for
Mathematica.
That said, I'm personally very impressed with Mathematica as a tool.
Dave
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