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by hellogoodbyeeee 2816 days ago
I loved using Mathematica in college. It was the first programming language I ever really used to make some cool things. I wish it was more accessible. I think one of the requirements of my dream job would be a work place that uses Mathematica.

It's really fun reading through "code golf" challenges where other languages take 10-15 lines for something that Mathematica has a built in for.

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Did you just say "code golf" and Mathematica in the same sentence?

Then you will love these. I own like 10 copies, which I give to people for their birthdays: http://adereth.github.io/blog/2017/11/02/playing-with-wolfra...

Oh, those are quite cool. I'll have to get a pack sometime. I also think the Executed Today deck looks pretty cool (totally different card subject)
I used Mathematica a lot as an undergrad, but more or less exclusively for doing symbolic math, mostly tricky or tedious integrals.

Much later I realized that it's actually a more or less full-fledged programming language as well, but, I never got into that.