I have a friend who'd love to participate in the challenge after I told him all about it, but as he's a mechanical engineer, he's not especially fluent in any programming language save for the object-oriented support offered by .
Although I don't know how much work it would take to provide support for MATLAB, I do know that if it were offered, the contest would be opened up to many more bright engineering minds who may not have experience in one of the currently supported programming languages.
Just a thought, I'd like to hear what the community thinks. But perhaps I should be careful what I ask for - we may just end up with a harder-to-crack top100

Cheers,
Tom
edit: it's worth mentioning that MATLAB seems to , so maybe that could provide a good headstart?