From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2004-08-13T01:51:10+09:00 Subject: Re: What are people using Ruby for? In article <20040812070323.58779.qmail@web21526.mail.yahoo.com>, David Ross wrote: >Nice. I thought about doing scientific computations, >but was not aware about overhead. :/ Does it work >decent for you? --David Ross I'm definately going to have to re-implement some of the matrix functions in C, but that shouldn't be too difficult. > >--- Phil Tomson wrote: > >> In article <9yASc.15093$Yf6.3069@lakeread03>, jmh >> wrote: >> >I'm not currently a Ruby user but have heard about >> it for a >> >while (few years). I've started looking into it and >> will get >> >around to compiling it in the next few weeks but >> was curious >> >how people are using the language. Is it primarily >> for >> >sys admin tasks? Internal applications? External >> customers? >> >Commercial applications? >> > >> >> I use Ruby for modelling/simulating quantum >> computation: >> >> >http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/~qc/cgi-bin/view/QC/QuantumDesignLanguage >> >> ....which doesn't really fit into any of the above >> catagories ;-) >> >> Phil >> >> > > > > >_______________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. >http://messenger.yahoo.com > >