Kinda interesting: a language that is very fast designed for science/math
applications.
http://julialang.org/
There is a cloud version to test with, and it can be used with C/Fortran
libraries.
It handles parallelism as well. They mention also having MatLab-like ease
of use for mathematics.
http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
As an aside, I really like the tendency in the mathematics/science
community of providing very useable cloud based sites, often with
"notebook" interfaces. My current favorite is a JS matrix system:
http://goo.gl/PIHuh
-- Owen
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