Comment by waveBidder

Generally agree, though Mathematica is for physics, I rarely saw it used by mathematicians, especially compared with MATLAB, which was closer to the programming language of choice. That or Julia were both more common.

> I think that Python is what you get when you have real programmers (^TM) try to create the programming equivalent of something like MATLAB, Mathematica, and R.

I think this is a better description of Julia tbh, at least relative to MATLAB.