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Asked: 2026-05-23T00:45:26+00:00

Can anyone name a language with all the following properties: Has algebraic data types

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Can anyone name a language with all the following properties:

  1. Has algebraic data types
  2. Has good support for linear algebra
  3. Is fast(-er than python, at least)
  4. Has at least some functional programming ability (I don’t need monads)
  5. Has been heard of, is not dead, and can interface on a C calling level
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    Scala

    According to Wikipedia it has algebraic datatypes. And it is fast. Scala is both functional and object oriented. And it’s a young language with a growing userbase but still to some extent compatible with Java.

    There is a Scala library Scalala for linear algebra:

    A high performance numeric linear algebra library for Scala, with rich Matlab-like operators on vectors and matrices; a library of numerical routines

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