It's a bit of a shame that they don't have more widespread use in scientific computing
In truth, they have. Lisp was the first functional language (or the first language that allowed that paradigm), and has been used a lot in scientific computing, for example doing symbolic calculus and manipulation.
that doesn't matter when very few scientists have even heard of an ml (standard ml, ocaml, f#) or a lisp/scheme (common lisp, racket), much less have an inkling to use them. their use does of course exist but by no measure is it widespread.
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In truth, they have. Lisp was the first functional language (or the first language that allowed that paradigm), and has been used a lot in scientific computing, for example doing symbolic calculus and manipulation.
that doesn't matter when very few scientists have even heard of an ml (standard ml, ocaml, f#) or a lisp/scheme (common lisp, racket), much less have an inkling to use them. their use does of course exist but by no measure is it widespread.
That's part of what makes Julia promising, it's a numerically-focused Lisp, without the parentheses.