Doug Bates pointed me to this the other day: http://julialang.org/ which will redirect to github at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia Looks promising, is open source (mostly MIT license) and pretty fast. Anybody have spare time / bandwidth to think about packaging it? Dirk -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx