I don't think this is the real problem. In R and Julia tables are great, and they are libraries. The key is that these languages are very expressive and malleable.
Simplifying a lot, R is heavily inspired by Scheme, with some lazy evaluation added on top. Julia is another take at the design space first explored by Dylan.
Simplifying a lot, R is heavily inspired by Scheme, with some lazy evaluation added on top. Julia is another take at the design space first explored by Dylan.