owowo said:Matlab, if you consider it a language.
Fortran has been used for quite some time, in fact if, memory serves right, people at CERN program Fortran but I don't exactly know the status of the Fortran development scene.
You could also learn C/C++ if you are going to be writing processing intensive programs, plus there is a lot of libraries written for them.
These are just a few things from the top of my mind.
Can you be clear what is it you are expecting to program?
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