>Igor,
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>>>>What is Mathematica?
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>>>Its a "programming language" that deals heavily with math and calculus.
>>>I've only had short encounters without, but it looks pretty interesting.
>>>http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/
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>> Is this Fortran of the 21st centure?
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>Mathematica has been around for 14 years... It's a very useful tool to own if you are an engineer or a statistician, or if you ever want to test your own heuristics.
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>It's still pricey (~2K) but it's far cheaper than the Unix-based Maxima program that I was using in the mid-80s (50K+).
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>BTW. What's wrong with Fortran? Certainly not my tool of choice for GUI stuff but usually a good choice if you ever want to do ratemaking calculations for an insurance company (although I still prefer APL to do exploratory calculations).
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>Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Nothing is wrong with Fortran, except may be lack of GUI.
I used to do some programming in Fortran IV.

Turbo-Fortran or Visual-Fortran. Are they exist?