/sci/ - Science & Math

Hello /sci/

I wan to write my own programm(s) to do calculations, but am not set on the language, yet.
So far I've learned: Java, Matlab (and a bit of Tex)

Under Linux is was happy using octave for quick plots, but making UIs and making my own programms is kind of a pain. In java i'm more comfortable. Even just console based Input-Output programms are easy to make, however plotting is pain (unless there is some library i don't know about). Also Java is pretty much on every PC which would be nice if i carried my programm around on an usb stick.
What about Python?
What about Mathematica?
What about fuck all this and stick with pen and paper and if neccessary use Wolframalpha or whatever for plots?

What do you use? Let's get a diskussion going.
I hear google uses Python, which is pretty cool, but if it's not readily installed on most machines I kinda don't want to invest into learning it from the ground up.

>>8026343
You're claiming that space is inaccessible to us, and that the rewards don't justify the trip.

But there's a huge amount of things we can learn by travelling to new places, and history clearly shows us how valuable the knowledge gained from exploration really is. Living hidden in your basement might be safe, but it's still just a slow death in ignorance. And we've already done several times more work in space than is necessary to prove that it's not impossible. Space is hard to live in, and other planets all have challenges to life, but we already know that humans are tough enough to push through that. Microgravity doesn't kill us. High and low pressures can be tolerated. We can build space suits and oxygen generators and all the other things we'll need to travel beyond the Earth.

If you don't want to be a part of it that's fine; There are other things that are important too.
But we can do this, and there's lots for us to learn.