Although I had been exposed to Mathematica multiple times during my Ph.D., I had never thought of the Wolfram Language being comparable to Python and didn’t realize it could be used for “actual” programming until I started working at Wolfram. research group is a strong Mathematica user and suggested I double-check results originally analyzed using Python with his Mathematica notebook. I was introduced to Mathematica in graduate school in my advanced quantum mechanics course, during the first semester of my Ph.D.

My undergraduate research demanded that I learn bash scripting and Tcl and that I continue using Python. This interest continued through college, where I was classically trained in both Python and Java but continued to use Wolfram|Alpha for math and chemistry. I discovered Wolfram in high school, where I was-and still am!-fascinated by Wolfram|Alpha’s natural language capability and knowledgebase. I very quickly felt comfortable using Mathematica in both of these capacities, but I had yet to truly use it as a programming platform with the Wolfram Language.

Since I started working at Wolfram, I have been almost exclusively using Mathematica, not only as computing software but also as a program in which to write documents.

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