From: Franz Hartmann Date: 2005-05-11T19:32:02+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby vs. java? >From: Ralf M�ller >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 18:42:47 +0900 > >On Wed, 11 May 2005 17:57:10 +0900 >"Franz Hartmann" wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > just call me Franz. I study physic in Berlin, but i am from bavaria >(that is > > in the south of germany). sorry for my bad english but foreign languages >are > > not my strong point. i like more mathematic. > > > > 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? > >Well... > >it depends on what you mean by 'the best programming language for this'? >Should it be fast? or have beautiful code? Should it be extensible? Do you >want to rely on existing libraries? as i said before, i need no libraries. have all the books at hand. should be fast. what do you call a beautiful language? >I did some numerical analysis in geophysics and it took 1-7 days to get the >results. So, you should keep in mind how expensive you number crunching >will be. Maybe a week is to long for you. oh, it will not be expensive at all because i can use my own computer. or maybe i will by me a mac, that costs less then �3000. if i can get the programm written in a week i will be very happy. >btw: there is a 'Runge-Kutta Ruby Class' avaliable, search freshmeat thanks for the hint, but i went to freshmeat.com and it did not found anything: it just gave me "Popular Categories" and such stuff. I mean, skin care is quite nice, but not what i look for. WHere must i look? > >regards >ralf > thanks, Franz _________________________________________________________________ Ungest�rt surfen. MSN Toolbar mit Pop-up-Blocker. http://toolbar.msn.de/ Jetzt kostenlos downloaden!