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oofabz on June 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Math...

I love a lot of things about Mathematica. Its syntax is not one of them.

freditup on June 5, 2012 [–]

I think Mathematica is designed more for engineering/non programming folks. You would think this shouldn't affect people with programming backgrounds, but I also have felt Mathematica seems much harder to learn than some other languages.

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