From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T03:10:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as mathematical language

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, none wrote:

> Regarding Narray, it seems kind of cool, but lacking in real
> mathematical sophistication.  I think it would be better to extend
> rb-gsl to make composing matrices easier and thus keep the excellent
> linear algebra facilities.  Really, I think Narray and rb-gsl have a
> lot of redundancy and I really don't like bouncing between the two of
> them.

can you give an example of something you'd like to do but can't?

> Regarding graphics, matplotlib for python rocks, I wonder if it can be
> ported....

narray's are easily plotted or viewed as images.

> The basics are all around, the problem is designing an intuitive one stop
> shop that is really usable.  Being able to hack something out of gnuplot is
> not the same as having a well put together framework/library....

narray takes a bit of getting used to - but there is really a tight
integration.  check out

   http://www.gfd-dennou.org/arch/ruby/
   http://www.ir.isas.ac.jp/~masa/ruby/gsl/

there's alot.  not much in english - something i'm working to remedy in

   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/TheScientificRubyProgrammingBook

cheers.

-a
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