Comment by quink

My languages of choice are JavaScript, SQL and Python and I've gone quite deep in all of them. I'd consider ObjectScript compiling down to efficiently work through SQL queries or to form objects and other things a metalanguage, so Caché isn't as one-dimensionally pure imperative as you'd think.

I don't have any formal background in computer science, so thank you for pointing this out, and it's true. In a nutshell, you're telling me to work through SICP, right? :P

Edit: Yes, you need to mention MATLAB's matrix handling. Probably also say something about NumPy and PyPy, I'm sure that'd help too.