I am actually just beginning to learn Python now, but when I was first exposed to MathCAD, I fell in love. Suddenly, I didn't need to hand-calculate or re-calculate by hand anything anymore, and I didn't have to squint my eyes at an Excel input box to make sure my parentheses and cell references were correct. I found so much joy in using MathCAD and figuring out all of its features. Is Python better? Maybe if it can display human-readable math the way MathCAD can, and do all of the calculation features such as solver? For procedural things like crunching databases, perhaps code is better, but for what I do, which is structural engineering, I need my equations to look like the building code equations and I need it to be readable by senior engineers who don't know programming language.
