[andygreenwell]

An additional note for posterity here...one of the main reasons Microsoft was interested in acquiring Interactive Supercomputing was that ISC developed it's own M-language (Matlab) compiler M# built on Mono/.NET...basically a faster Matlab replacement than Octave, using features like multiple dispatch. One of the primary developers of the M# compiler at ISC was Jeff Bezanson, co-creator of Julia.

Exie used a bit of code from M#. When Exie was cancelled, the libraries were given a C#/F# facelift as Cloud Numerics, which was eventually cancelled, and then given a GUI facelift as part of the initial version of AzureML.

Disclaimer: I previously worked at Interactive Supercomputing, was part of the team acquired into Technical Computing/HPC at Microsoft, and also worked at Julia Computing.

[byt143]

Julia is open source...why don't they just incorporate it?