<story><title>Mathematica 14</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/01/the-story-continues-announcing-version-14-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Solstinox</author><text>Mathematica is probably one of the biggest and most complex commercially available applications that still has an artisanal&amp;#x2F;craftsman made quality about it.&lt;p&gt;It’s something special. Maybe a bit of a relic in its distribution (not open source, not that SaaSy), but it’s so well thought out.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mathematica 14</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/01/the-story-continues-announcing-version-14-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tempodox</author><text>Mathematica is what I thought a computer would be like before I could really use one: A tool for arithmetics and math.  Instead we get text processing, kitten photos and porn videos.  Not that I have anything against either of these, but it was still a mild shock to find that the `ln` command does not, by a long shot, compute the natural logarithm in Unix.  OK, even Mathematica makes me alias `Ln` to `Log`.  So much for the principle of least surprise.  Still, given that you need extra software to make your computer actually compute, Mathematica is my tool of choice.</text></comment>