Julia could be a big win, not just b/c of the notation, but the dependency control is a first-class language feature. Also, the Lispy-ness of Julia allows to do

Julia could be a big win, not just b/c of the notation, but the dependency control is a first-class language feature. Also, the Lispy-ness of Julia allows to do things like Latexify expressions. To quote someone upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260590 > Everyone just put together a few text files and Python or MATLAB scripts that output some numbers that went into Excel or gnuplot scripts that got copy-pasted into LaTeX documents with suffixes like "v2_final_modified.tex", shared over Dropbox. It would be amazing to have an environment that could handle the entire workflow. Not everybody has time to make an executable thesis like this person did: https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash