I use Mathematica frequently and, within the niche that it serves, it is starting to remind me a lot of Excel.
Both are commercial software, have a low barrier to entry, are powerful enough to run the software for a nuclear power plant, have enough footguns to make this a terrible idea, and are so overused that it might be happening anyway.
But I do not think we will get rid of it any time soon.
Both are commercial software, have a low barrier to entry, are powerful enough to run the software for a nuclear power plant, have enough footguns to make this a terrible idea, and are so overused that it might be happening anyway.
But I do not think we will get rid of it any time soon.