Don't forget Lush: Lisp Universal SHell[1] by none other than Yann LeCun, and this was back in 2004. I played with it in 2012 or so. Lisp, SBCL, is great for science. I am playing with April, a subset of APL in Lisp. The best of both worlds!

[1] http://lush.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://github.com/phantomics/april