From: none <webb.sprague@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T06:10:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as mathematical language

That is cool about narray--I couldn't figure out from the docs how to
do that.

Regarding the other links--I guess I have a problem with that approach.
 In R or Matlab (which have huge limitations), you know that you can
sit down, open a session, grab some big matrices, compose them, do some
nifty math, make some publishable plots, and save everything before you
leave.  You don't worry about whether Ruby Gnu plot is going to work
with some other library you downloaded to try to read CDF files and
whether you will have the linear algebra tools you need.

I also realize there is a big world of Ruby in Japanese that I can't
really tap into.

In light of all my b*ing, does it seem like your wiki would be a good
place to start a Scientific Ruby Environment discussion area?

W