[ I can't determine anymore who I'm replying to ... ]
N.B. the recent MPI class we gave suggested that we need to re-tool it to focus more upon Fortran than C. There was no interest in Java from the class I polled. Some researchers want to use Matlab for their work, but most university computing facilities are loathe to spend the money to get site licenses for Matlab. Unfortunate, as Matlab is a very cool tool (been playing with it first in 1988 ...) its just not fast. The folks at Interactive Supercomputing might be able to help with this with their compiler.
I think you (and they) are waging a "back-end" war. I have had problems for at least a decade with University students being baffled by Fortran because they were used to use Matlab.
The tide is turning. People streaming in from academia into my Institute (Dutch Weather Forecasting Centre) now are clever enough to overcome the small syntactical differences between the Matlab language and Fortran 90+ and just proceed to use the latter, integrating flawlessly with our other software.
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