Julia

Julia's syntax resembles MATLAB's syntax.

Features:

• Sophisticated compiler
• Distributed parallel execution
• Numerical accuracy
• Extensive mathematical function library
• Best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra
• Random number generation
• FFTs
• String processing
• Automatic generation of efficient, specialized code for different argument types
• Good performance, approaching that of statically-compiled languages like C
• User-defined types are as fast and compact as built-ins
• Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
• Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines)
• Unobtrusive yet powerful type system
• Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types
• Efficient support for Unicode, including but not limited to UTF-8
• Call C functions directly (no wrappers or special APIs needed)
• Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes
• Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming facilities