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IMHO F# is another contender in this space. It's a functional language with a lot of nice features, tools and support for the whole .NET ecosystem (though compared to Haskell it does lack certain 'advanced' features like higher kinded types). Some packages are listed at https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/

I find FSharp.Data especially to be amazing for productivity.

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Thanks for the link! I think the page hits the nail on the head with this: 'As data science employs techniques from many problem domains, numerous base technologies are required.'

Any language that can successfully and seamlessly pull packages from other languages will do very well. Since most of the packages for data science start off in academics, and written by people who are experts in their field, and not computer science, 'cool' languages are going to struggle to get mind-share in package development.

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