[7thaccount]

Ah, yeah I think that makes more sense.

I know Matlab is a good R&D tool (like Mathematica), but it is a little painful for the end user and far too expensive for a lot of industrial users who don't work at a company already entrenched with the ecosystem. I don't want to pay $5k for a database toolbox if you know what I mean. If the code is only for a study though...it probably doesn't matter a whole lot.

Python seems like a good lingua franca and Julia isn't far behind overall. What makes me excited about Julia is that (at least in theory) I can write some blazing fast code without being a systems level programmer and also get the ability to look at the assembly output (just all around cool) and write macros (a la lisp). I doubt I'd ever use macros on serious code, but having the opportunity is a plus. It's a neat design.

Best of luck in your future endeavors.