Is Mathematica Worth Buying?

Is Mathematica Worth Buying? For symbolic computations, I highly recommend Mathematica. Mathematica as a programming language is slower that compiled languages (e.g. C, Fortran). If you want to make “complex” code, then I suggest using a compiled language and numerical routines from the Netlib library and other open-source librairies. Is Mathematica a good software? Mathematica