As the Ars comments make clear, with the exception of Julia none of these languages has any chance of wide adoption under the broad umbrella of "scientific computing."

For a defense of the numerical/scientific computing tradition of which FORTRAN is the ne plus ultra, see this article: http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html

It's telling of the Ars author's lispy blinders that he gives recursive examples for computing Fibonacci numbers. As the linked article makes clear, this is ridiculous because there's a closed form solution:

""" long int fib(unsigned long int n) { return lround((pow(0.5 + 0.5 * sqrt(5.0), n) - pow(0.5 - 0.5 * sqrt(5.0), n)) / sqrt(5.0)); }

No recursion (or looping) is required because an analytic solution has been available since the 17th century."""