Interfaces can be a bleessing but also often come with more hassle
than help. Some reasons are:
- They are quite operating system dependent.
- The are sensitive on the version of the software
- Interfaces are rigid and contain more bugs, crash more often.
- They eat valuable CPU and memory resources and slow down the computation.
- They need quite a while to start up and litter your desktop.
In the case of Mathematica, users can struggle with printing, have problems
with the concept of cells, with evaluating the cells, they are forced to
use the editor which comes with the notebook instead of their favorate
editor or have to decipher inadequate jaggy fonts.
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