If you like perl, and want expression compactness, try the perl data language. To quote "One can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire numerical a

If you like perl, and want expression compactness, try the perl data language. To quote "One can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire numerical arrays all at once. For example, using PDL the Perl variable $a can hold a 1024x1024 floating point image, it only takes 4MB of memory to store it and expressions like $a=sqrt($a)+2 manipulate the whole image in a few milliseconds. " http://pdl.perl.org/ http://pdl.perl.org/