IMO, Julia[1] is Python done right, without all the annoying bits of python, and (much) faster. Perl is (still) a fantastic language to use when you have compl

IMO, Julia[1] is Python done right, without all the annoying bits of python, and (much) faster. Perl is (still) a fantastic language to use when you have complex tasks and don't want to spend more time on boilerplate and specific formalisms of the language, than the problem space. Perl is still (as in has been for many years) the goto language for a number of difficult problems. If your tooling is helping you write in the tool versus helping you solve your problem, you might be using the wrong tool. Perl is not for numerics for a number of reasons. Javascript isn't either. Python is ... well ... python. It's the MSBASIC of the 201x years. As my comment above noted, I believe that Julia will quickly replace Python, as it has a saner syntax, trivial library integration, great package/module system (though the 1.0 transition has been bumpy with mass deprecations that could have been handled better), is compiled, has an optional strong type system, works in parallel out of the box (no GIL), ... edit: included missing reference. [1] http://julialang.org http://julialang.org