Example of Matlab calling your Windows DotNet DLL
Here is a link of way to get your Matlab console session to call a .NET assembly like a DLL. I am not sure if any open source languages like R or Python has this capability but there are many advantages.
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/net.addassembly.html
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