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I have not - the only company I worked for before returning to academics to do a doctorate actually paid the insane MATLAB license fee. I have heard Octave is nearly identical though.

The student version of MATLAB is sort of reasonable, $-wise, but yeah, it's almost as costly as Mathematica. Insane is the right word.

Have you read Wolfram's opus?
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/05/a-new-kind-of-science-a-15-year-view/

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