From: Franz Hartmann Date: 2005-05-11T19:00:53+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby vs. java? Hello Michael and all of you, >From: Michael Ulm >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) >Subject: Re: ruby vs. java? >Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:19:01 +0900 > >Franz Hartmann wrote: >>Hello all, >> >--snip-- >>I want to do a physical model calculation about the dynamics of >>incompressibel liquids. I am not sure which is the best programming >>language for this. I think about visual basic, java and ruby. I know java >>quite good and vb and ruby a bit. actually i wanted to do it in vb but its >>to powerful for me. so i am looking for something easier. >> >>can you tell me the essential differences between java and ruby? what can >>you do in ruby that you cannot do in java? and what about jruby? can i >>combine java and ruby? >> > >Sorry Franz, you are on a completely wrong track there. As much as >I hate to steer people away from Ruby, I don't think any of the >programming languages you mention are a good choice for numeric >simulations (if you would have to do it in one of those languages, >Ruby would be the best of the three for most applications). Why are the programming languages i need not a good choice? Everyone says that object oriented programming is much faster than normal. Java has more object oriented feetures than ruby, or supports ruby interfaces and things like that too? i have not found any thing about it but documentation is very poor. >I would recommend Octave as the best free choice for getting >solutions for (partial) differential equations. If you have money >to burn, you may want to look at Matlab or, depending on your >specific needs, Maple or Mathematica. i cannot use octave. SGI octave is a unix machine and i need windows compatible, or best case macintosh, because i need use word & excel & power point (& counterstrike *g* ). which programming languages run on octave? thank you for the suggestion, i have already tried matlab but it is not good to. I want to do object oriented programming because it is faster. >HTH, what means HTH? >Michael > >P.S. do yourself a favour and forget that such a beast as vb exists. Why that? VB is industry standard, a VERY powerful object oriented language. All programmers i know write in VB, and excel, word etc also use VB. What is wrong about it? (apart from that it is very difficult) > >-- >Michael Ulm >R&D Team >ISIS Information Systems Austria >tel: +43 2236 27551-219, fax: +43 2236 21081 >e-mail: michael.ulm@isis-papyrus.com >Visit our Website: www.isis-papyrus.com Nice website! Franz _________________________________________________________________ Die rote Karte f�r l�stige E-Mails. MSN Hotmail mit Junk-Mail-Filter. http://www.msn.de/antispam/prevention/junkmailfilter Jetzt kostenlos anmelden!