Twitching to learn a new language. I want something that has computational power of C, and the contemporary advances in Computer Science that ruby contains.
Ocaml seems suitable.
A quick dump of research sources:
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html
http://blog.camlcity.org/blog/ocamlnet3_mp.html
http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_Caml
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr/software/ocamltutorial/index.html