[thebooktocome]

Eh. I'm a graduate student in mathematics, and it unless a problem is more or less trivial, it takes too long to force Mathematica to do what I mean.

Also I agree with a poster below: this press release is really low on the signal-to-noise.

[dagw]

Personally I use Mathematica as a sketchpad for playing around with ideas and getting a feel for a problem. It is great because I can type in my sloppy half thought out ideas in a fairly natural syntax and Mathematica will generally do something sensible with them. Once I've gotten a handle on what I need to do and actually have to start getting results I leave Mathematica for matlab, python or C.

That being said I've met some really great Mathematica programmers, and the stuff they can make that program do with only a few dozen lines of code is truly amazing.