From: "Ralf Müller" <r_mueller@...>
Date: 2005-05-11T20:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby vs. java?


> 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 wrote beautiful code, i.e. code that is easy to read and to understand even if you look at it for the first time.
just ruby

If it should be fast, use a unix terminal at the physics deprtement und choose C or Fortran. 2D or 3D can be generated out of text-files with gnuplot

> 
> >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.
Maybe 'expensive' was  too ambiguous: I meant, how much time will it take to run you program on a given machine, i.e. you computer. 1 day?, 1 week?

> 
> >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, 
> <eiteitei>skin care is quite nice</eiteitei>, but not what i look for. WHere 
> must i look?
try http://freshmeat.net/projects/rk4/