Roger,

I actually value your opinion regarding programming languages other than Perl. And with humor intended I will propose that when you go off to your eternal reward, if you ignored all of Santa's warnings and land in the "other place," then as a form of punishment you are going to be forced to write Perl language programs for the rest of eternity.

Julia might not yet be mature enough for our purposes. Fortran would be. But I want to determine this for certain before recommending anything. And I am giving the Perl people perhaps one last chance to start helping. I did get the Perl PDL module to finally work. But I could not get it to draw plots. So there is still something more needed.

Jumping to Fortran wouldn't be a problem for me. However, the fact that it doesn't run on Internet servers as far as I am aware makes it a little less attractive. Perl is probably on most or all of them.