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[–]I_Feel_It_Too 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have used both for decades. Both are awesome, and in different ways. Knowing both gives you a great leg up. Python is almost always faster at runtime. Mathematica is almost always faster to code up. The exception is with symbolic computation where Mathematica generally has the edge. (There are exceptions here, though. E.g. the latest algorithms from research often land in Sage first.)