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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Notepad++

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ANotepad++ is a popular free and open source text editor available under the GPL license, featuring syntax highlighting and folding, auto-complete, multi-document management, and ac customizable GUI.N/A

    Mathematica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AWolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.

    $1,520

    per year

    Pricing
    Notepad++Mathematica
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard Cloud
    $1,520
    per year
    Standard Desktop
    $3,040
    one-time fee
    Standard Desktop & Cloud
    $3,344
    one-time fee
    Mathematica Enterprise Edition
    $8,150.00
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Notepad++Mathematica
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network.
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    Community Pulse
    Notepad++Mathematica
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
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    Wolfram
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Notepad++Mathematica
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Notepad++ and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    6 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Notepad++ and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Notepad++ and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.3
    8 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Notepad++ and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.98 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Notepad++Mathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (62 ratings)
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Notepad++Mathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    well suited for 1) Coding and Development - Writing and editing code, Quick prototyping and testing of code snippets, Debugging and inspecting code using syntax highlighting and line numbering, 2) web development - Creating and editing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web-related files .Managing and organizing web projects with multiple files and directories. Not suited for - 1) processing huge files 2) graphic designing 3) complex gui designs 3) Data Analysis and Manipulation - Editing and cleaning up text-based data files before importing them into analytical tools. Applying regular expressions to extract, transform, and manipulate data. 4) System Administration and IT - change system configuration file
    Incentivized
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    Wolfram
    We are the judgement that Wolfram Mathematica is despite many critics based on the paradigms selected a mark in the fields of the markets for computations of all kind. Wolfram Mathematica is even a choice in fields where other bolide systems reign most of the market. Wolfram Mathematica offers rich flexibility and internally standardizes the right methodologies for his user community. Wolfram Mathematica is not cheap and in need of a hard an long learner journey. That makes it weak in comparison with of-the-shelf-solution packages or even other programming languages. But for systematization of methods Wolfram Mathematica is far in front of almost all the other. Scientist and interested people are able to develop themself further and Wolfram Matheamatica users are a human variant for themself. The reach out for modern mathematics based science is deep and a unique unified framework makes the whole field of mathematics accessable comparable to the brain of Albert Einstein. The paradigms incorporated are the most efficients and consist in assembly on the market. The mathematics is covering and fullfills not just education requirements but the demands and needs of experts.
    Mathematica is incompatible with other systems for mCAx and therefore the borders between the systems are hard to overcome. Wolfram Mathematica should be consider one of the more open systems because other code can be imported and run but on the export side it is rathe incompatible by design purposes. A better standard for all that might solve the crisis but there is none in sight. Selection of knowledge of what works will be in the future even more focussed and general system might be one the lossy side. Knowledge of esthetics of what will be in the highest demand in necessary and Wolfram is not a leader in this field of science. Mathematics leves from gathering problems from application fields and less from the glory of itself and the formalization of this.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Notepad++ allows us to keep open files in tabs. Like in a web browser, these tabs let us access these files quickly and easily. Furthermore, even if we forget to save the files when closing the program or shutting down the PC, Notepad++ retains them in the open tabs when we reopen it.
    • Notepad++ supports many different file types. We usually save our files created in Notepad as normal text files, but sometimes as JSON, PHP, and HTML files.
    • Notepad++ is lightweight and requires little resources. Using it is snappy and responsive.
    • The developer of Notepad++ frequently updates the software with bug fixes, performance improvements and new features.
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    Wolfram
    • It allows straightforward integration of analytic analysis of algebraic expressions and their numerical implemented.
    • Supports varying programmatic paradigms, so one can choose what best fits the problem or task: pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even (with a bit of setup) object-oriented programming.
    • The extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering make it very easy to not just get 2D and 3D renderings of final output, but also to do quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate results and/or debugging results.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • UI looks a bit dated.
    • Sometimes the number of options are overwhelming and require a quick search to figure out where to locate a particular function.
    • Some way to do a diff between files would be great. Still need to resort to another paid app for that - unless it is a buried function I don't know about or there's a plugin for it.
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    Wolfram
    • Should include more libraries and functions.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Machine Learning.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Data Science.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    I use it every day for 13 years already and it never disappointed me
    Incentivized
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Open Source
    There are lot of features to talk about. Especially the usability is good. Everyone can easily to use and user-friendly. Can also update easily. Can also write and execute the programming languages like C, C++ etc. Encoding is also the major feature that helps me a lot and converter as well.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    I haven't needed to utilize any support related to Notepad++. I guess this is a good thing because I found it to be quite intuitive. There are almost infinite features you can tweak and plugins you can download but I haven't had to do that because Notepad++ is really good right out of the box.
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    Wolfram
    Wolfram Mathematica is a nice software package. It has very nice features and easy to install and use in your machine. Besides this, there is a nice support from Wolfram. They come to the university frequently to give seminars in Mathematica. I think this is the best thing they are doing. That is very helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are using Mathematica in their research.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Notepad for Windows, Microsoft Word...LibreOffice Writer....I have used all of these for code writing and editing. Once again I like the universal feel of Notepad++. Basic Notepad, is just that, basic...and kind of clunky for what it is. This is a cool that I have installed on all my computers and also keep it on a thumb drive if I need it elsewhere.
    Incentivized
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    Wolfram
    We have evaluated and are using in some cases the Python language in concert with the Jupyter notebook interface. For UI, we using libraries like React to create visually stunning visualizations of such models. Mathematica compares favorably to this alternative in terms of speed of development. Mathematica compares unfavorably to this alternative in terms of license costs.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Productivity has increased for developers.
    • It's free so instead of buying a piece of software, you can use this to replace many of them that may only specialize in one thing.
    • It gives our developers confidence knowing they have such a reliable, free tool at their disposal.
    Incentivized
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    Wolfram
    • Easy to solve huge mathematical equations, so it saved time there
    • Doing analysis and plotting graphs is also another plus point
    • Learning is very slow, and it took lot of time to learn its scripting language
    Incentivized
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