I've added support for Octave and Matlab to org-babel.

In addition to the normal org-babel setup[1], you'll need one or both of

(require 'org-babel-octave)
(require 'org-babel-matlab)

and for matlab sessions you'll need matlab.el[2] (octave support is
bundled with GNU emacs).

I'd appreciate the help of octave/matlab users in sorting out the
remaining issues with this (many of which will be due to my lack of
octave/matlab knowledge). So please report back all the problems you
find!

I'm attaching an org file containing notes on the problems that I'm
aware of. This will also (within a couple of hours) be available on
Worg[3], and it would be great if others could contribute to that
file. The intention is that file will turn into the language-specific
documentation for org-babel octave/matlab.

Dan

Footnotes:

[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.php#getting-started
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/matlab-emacs/
[3] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/org-babel-doc-octave-matlab.php