Wolfram Mathematica

"It's the Macintosh of the interpreted software languages, it just works right out of the box! "

Vorteile: The most critical feature of Mathematica (and Wolfram products in general) is that everything is seamlessly perfectly integrated. Everything is curated and maintained up to date.
Competing platforms like Matlab sure offer a larger set of functionalities, but the integration of the many "packages" is too often very poor.
In Mathematica, every package is fully integrated with the rest of the platform like no other software. Maybe you can say that Labview somehow reaches the same level of integration.
Mathematica is a very flexible and multi-purpose software language that can be used for programming pretty much anything.
New functionality like "Cloud-deploy" allow anybody to run algorithm made in Mathematica from anywhere in the world, from any device, with the only need of having an internet connection and a compatible browser.

Nachteile: Some secondary functionalities like the Presentation notebook are not so well developed, yet. That said, I doubt many will ever use it.

"Engineering Grad Student Review of Mathematica"

Kommentare: Overal really useful if you know how to use it and particularly strong at analytical calculus and symbolic equations. Otherwise the language is a little clunky. If more people used it, it would be more valuable.

Vorteile: Mathematica is really great at solving symbolic math equations. Unrivaled in my opinion. Analytical solving is a breeze with this and it is intuitive how it all appears, as if you wrote it on a sheet of paper. That is its best feature. Otherwise it has a lot of really cool math functionality for analzying data. I particularly have used it for signal processing.

Nachteile: Well it is like learning another programming language so you have to get over that barrier. It is hit or miss with other people who know how to read the software or even use it. The only reason I used it was because I found Wolfram Alpha online as an undergrad and when I became a grad student I found out the previous grad students used it. I'd say its programming language is a little clunky, compared to some competitors. And its not open software.

"Ideal software for technical computing!"

Kommentare: I had a great experience using the Wolfram Mathematica. It's an ideal software for technical computing.

Vorteile: I like Wolfram Mathematica software because of its high speed mathematical calculation, instantaneous graph illustration, and 3D image view capabilities.

Nachteile: There is a learning curve to write or enter equations in Mathematica. It's easy to make mistakes.

"Good tool for students/professors at sciences and engineering"

Kommentare: It was helping me out with my learning and check if I did well an exercise or if the result is similar, how it did get there.

Vorteile: Ït's offline. It tells the way to solve some exercises and share its result, save it as capture image and so. It is not heavy for our device. A bit quicker and easier to use than another calculator with its features like solving integrals and derivations. Not programming knowledge needed.

Nachteile: IYou must be cautious with what and how you write your equations because of syntax and priority solving by the mathematics and the program itself.

"Poor Customer Service"

Kommentare: I had to call quite a few times before getting an answer which at the end turned out to be complete​ nonsense. I 've just acquired a license for my own use and install it on a MAC. However, since the OS Catalina update, my license stopped​ working and required an update from Mathematica "32-bit app compatibility with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and later". I contacted Wolframe thinking that they would be understanding in providing a free upgrade. "No way" was their answer.

Vorteile: Great software which has been very useful to me for more than 12 years now.

Nachteile: I was really surprised by​ their poor customer support.