3.4.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

3.4.2.1 Is there a syntax for single-line comments for notebooks?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1496/is-there-a-syntax-for-single-line-comments-for-notebooks

 
I'm aware that I can use (* ... *) to comment out stuff in a notebook. Many languages have a syntax for single-line comments, such as 
 
 
// in C, C++, Java, C#, ... 
# in shell, Python, ... 
 
 
For  ...
 

- asked by Peeter Joot (37 votes), answered by Szabolcs (43 votes)

3.4.2.2 Advice for Mathematica as Mathematician's Aid

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/92686/advice-for-mathematica-as-mathematicians-aid

 
I use Mathematica mainly as an aid in symbolic attacks on problems, usually intermediate or harder and often number theoretic.  While Reduce, Simplify, et al. are remarkably powerful, they of course  ...
 

- asked by CarlEdman (56 votes), answered by MarcoB (39 votes)