I've tried Idris. J and APL are great for quick analysis once you know them. I leave J open on my desktop for engineering and stats. Frink too for effortless un

I've tried Idris. J and APL are great for quick analysis once you know them. I leave J open on my desktop for engineering and stats. Frink too for effortless units work. Haskell and its ilk are good for math. Programming to learn math works really well for some, since you work through a problem incrementally, especially with dynamic interpreters and REPLs. Pluto with Julia or Jupyter with Python or Mathematica too.