[improbable22]

For such things, Julia is often very close to Matlab indeed, or at least it can be used that way.

You could translate most of those files line-for-line, with quite a few lines identical or trivially changed (bracket shape, or max -> maximum). This is often a useful thing to do, get a transliterated version running, and then re-write bits of it more idiomatically, while checking that the output is identical.

[scottlocklin]

I'd be happy to look at the output of such an exercise. If I were transcribing it, it would either be to J or C. Julia doesn't solve any problems for me.