you should see Julia. There's a lot of syntactic sugar that borrows from the best of other languages, for example the pipe |> operator from elixir and do...end block syntax from ruby.
Full unicode is supported. Unicode pi is implemented to mean the pure mathematical entity, so at compile-time it is turned into an memory reference to the most possible exact value.
The metaprogramming in julia is so good I wrote a verilog DSL that transpiles specially written julia into compilable and verifiable verilog - in 3 days.
Yep, I'm aware of Julia. I hope it takes off - it certainly looks a lot better thought out than R, which is very idiosyncratic. So far, though, it's still a fledgling.
Full unicode is supported. Unicode pi is implemented to mean the pure mathematical entity, so at compile-time it is turned into an memory reference to the most possible exact value.
The metaprogramming in julia is so good I wrote a verilog DSL that transpiles specially written julia into compilable and verifiable verilog - in 3 days.