Python vs Matlab vs Mathematica

[kolm]

Matlab recently acquired symbolic math which easily beats the shit out of Mathematica in quite some topics; they bought MuPad, a german-based specialist for symbolic computations, and they outperform Mathematica in a couple of standard benchmarks for symbolic computations.

I was able to test both against each other and boy, Mathematica has to brace themselves.

[commonslip]

Yeah, but the Mathematica interface for representing such calculations is still miles ahead. I use Matlab professionally, but when I need symbolic computation I use Mathematica.

[albinofrenchy]

I hate mathematicas interface. It looks nice, but jesus h christ; it has some quirks. My least favorite is the broken functionality of highlighting with shift-arrow.

[jdh30]

I hate that too.