From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2004-12-12T14:19:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV] Want to Write a Book?

David G. Andersen wrote:
> A book I wish I had the time to write, but I'm swamped:
> 
>   Using Ruby in Scientific Applications
>    - Numerical applications
>    - Analysis
>    - Data Acquisition 
>    - Control
>    - Visualization 
>    - Data archiving and retrieval
>  
> I haven't had a chance to play with the acquisition and control
> aspects yet, so I don't actually know what would go into this book
> -- but I really wish I already had it on my bookshelf.

I have a proposal in to IBM for an article for developerWorks on "Data 
Acqusition with Linux, Comedi, SWIG, and Ruby. They said to check back 
if I hadn't heard from the Linux editor in four weeks. (Why they need 
more than ten minutes to accept a free article is another question. On 
the other hand, the same topic was rejected for OSCON last year, so 
maybe you and I are the only ones interested....)

> Perhaps it
> would turn into a giant users manual for NArray, but I think there's
> a lot more.  I promise to buy copies and hand them to my colleagues
> and students if someone writes it. ;)

Have you seen ruby-gsl? Powerful stuff.

Steve