On 04/24/12 06:21 PM, Keshav Kini wrote:
Jason Grout<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> writes:
Notice that the ratings are most dissimilar from Python (see bottom of
page)! Indeed, it is very interesting to look at the comparison page:
http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/mathematica/python
I find it a little bizarre that almost 40% of respondents consider
Python better at symbolic manipulation than Mathematica. Mathematica is
practically built for symbolic manipulation, and in Sage a lot of hard
work has gone into pynac because plain Python does not have symbolics
support.
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-Keshav
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There appear to be numerous strange results on that site, so I take the results
with a pinch of salt. I decided to compare MATLAB and Mathematica.
http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/mathematica/matlab
1) "I use this language out of choice"
7 out of 8 picked Mathematica over Matlab
Now it is pretty clear to me that there are FAR more people programming in
MATLAB than Mathematica, and a lot of people like MATLAB. (Do a search on a job
site and see how many jobs want Mathematica programmers vs MATLAB ones). So why
87% program in Mathematica out of choice is strange to me.
2) "When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help
with this language"
7 out of 9 picked Matlab over Mathematica.
Funny that result, given the result to (1). 7 out of 8 chose Mathematica over
MATLAB out of choice, but 7 out of 9 find their colleagues can help them with
MATLAB more than Mathematica.
3) "When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct"
7 out of 8 picked Mathematica over Matlab
Come on, which a stupid question. How the **** can you be much more sure
Mathematica code is more correct than MATLAB code?
The site looks good for a laugh, but does not appear to have any value other
than that to me.
Dave
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