"It is compared to Fortran and floats somewhere between R and Octave."
I haven't heard a more amusingly wrong characterization of our language in a long, long time.
I haven't heard a more amusingly wrong characterization of our language in a long, long time.
My gripe is more that for the multitude of problem domains that you can represent in mathematica, a huge amount can be done off the shelf for the same effort with something a lot cheaper if not entirely free. Very few people need or use the capabilities past the very basics.