title: What programming languages are good for statistics?
body: <p>I'm doing a bit more statistical analysis on some things lately, and I'm curious if there are any programming languages that are particularly good for this purpose.  I know about <a href="http://www.r-project.org/" rel="noreferrer">R</a>, but I'd kind of prefer something a bit more general-purpose (or is R pretty general-purpose?).</p>
  
  <p>What suggestions do you guys have?  Are there any languages out there whose syntax/semantics are particularly oriented towards this?  Or are there any languages that have exceptionally good libraries?</p>