Why don't developers in the Bay Area use Mathematica? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why don't developers in the Bay Area use Mathematica?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 3:24 AM UTC

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Re: Why don't developers in the Bay Area use Mathematica?

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Post by daly » Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 5:27 AM UTC

Try Axiom

Re: Why don't developers in the Bay Area use Mathematica?

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Post by xiaoma » Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 8:24 AM UTC

The "starter" edition is $1,000 and the standard edition is $2,500.

That pretty much kills any sort of use for side projects or lifestyle businesses until after getting significant traction...by which time most people realize python and numpy/scipi is plenty good enough.

Re: Why don't developers in the Bay Area use Mathematica?

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Post by dhbradshaw » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 3:26 AM UTC

xiaoma wrote: post #13

The "starter" edition is $1,000 and the standard edition is $2,500. That pretty much kills any sort of use for side projects or lifestyle businesses until after getting significant traction...by which time most people realize python and numpy/scipi is plenty good enough.

Mathematica is free on the Raspberry Pi.

(Of course I'm not saying you want to base a business on that, but just that it's a cool way to get Mathematica and play with it.)