Depends on the field. In the social sciences, Mathematica and Stata are probably the most widely used tools. Might be that way for economics too, but I'm not sure.
I believe they prefer window like interfaces instead of scripting or programming your models.
Stata used to be only command line driven and probably still has that functionality ( I used it in 1997-2007) ; then again as a mathematician I prefer R. Or any computer algebra system.