Ok, I wanted to write "julia, julia, julia..." (check out the varargs) but I shall be sensible. Julia's syntax is what an algol culture programmer would expect in order to deal with a late 2000's concept of typing. It has the HCI virtue of being what I (you?) expect.

At the same time it is 40x faster (in my applications developed in a fortune 500 company, ok the research bit - but still delivered for use if not prod) than python.

Now, if only we got it running in SPARK...