Haskell is the best imperative language [1]. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6622524/why-is-haskell-sometimes-referred-to-as-best-imperative-language h

Haskell is the best imperative language [1]. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6622524/why-is-haskell-sometimes-referred-to-as-best-imperative-language https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6622524/why-is-haskell-s... Haskell have array-oriented programming embedded DSLs, like REPA [2] and Accelerate [3]. [2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/repa https://hackage.haskell.org/package/repa [3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate The most used (by me) Vector package has boxed (efficient) and unboxed (J-like) arrays. With these arrays having map, fold, scan, fromList/toList, zip and unzip combinators, one can have as terse (in the operator count sense) notation as one wishes for.