One rival would be PDL which has been around for over 16 years on Perl. Some refs: - http://pdl.perl.org/ http://pdl.perl.org/ - http://blogs.perl.org/users/

One rival would be PDL which has been around for over 16 years on Perl. Some refs: - http://pdl.perl.org/ http://pdl.perl.org/ - http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2012/06/adapting-pdl-to-a-big-data-landscape.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2012/06/adapting-p... - http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2011/06/cuda-and-the-perl-data-language.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2011/06/cuda-and-t...