The MathWorks, Inc. [http://www.mathworks.com/]
styles MATLAB
[http://www.mathworks.com/products/]
as "the language of technical computing".  MathWorks is an interesting
company; it continued to hire programmers all through 2002 and at
least the beginning of 2003, despite the general depression in [IT].



The quickest, lightest way to get [Tcl] and MATLAB talking is
through [DDE].  Does MATLAB also offer a [COM] interface?

[TMath] and [TCL-MAT] both bind Tcl and MATLAB.





[Octave] is an open-source replacement for MATLAB.








Perhaps [NAP] is also of interest.


[[Link to article on Open Source vs. proprietary for scientists,
available through
[http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.programming/open_source_science.html].]]