Besides Julia, I think another alternate language to Python for scientific computation would be Scala. Breeze (from ScalaNLP project) is an effort to bring Nump

Besides Julia, I think another alternate language to Python for scientific computation would be Scala. Breeze (from ScalaNLP project) is an effort to bring Numpy and Matlab syntax to Scala: https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/wiki/Breeze-Linear-Algebra https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/wiki/Breeze-Linear-Algebr... The learning curve for Scala may be steep though.