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Eh, the simplified version is:

- Engineers (like electrical etc) use Matlab

- Statisticians use R

- Rich people sometimes use Mathematica

- People with some CS background use Python/numpy/sklearn

For "purer" math, like symbolic differentiation and such, I don't really know any of those people, but I think Mathematica has a lot in that area. The others have stuff, but less developed. But pretty much every major language has linear algebra at this point.




I would sort of expect Julia to be on the list for "good math language for people not quite happy with clojure". But it's much younger than the others listed, obviously.


Sadists use sas


Who, other than students forced to do so, uses Minitab?




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