From: Daniel Lewis <danieljohnlewis@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T00:55:50+09:00
Subject: Re: In your opinion....

On 29/09/05, Mike Pence <mike.pence@gmail.com> wrote:
> "For complex mathematical modelling, there are functional programming languages
> that are a better fit."

OK I agree with what you say about this. But according to this site:
http://www.jvoegele.com/software/langcomp.html
Ruby has the ability to be used as a functional language (as well as
Smalltalk, Python, Perl and Eiffel).

In my final year of university (which starts in September 2006), I
will be learning Hugs (a Haskell varient) for Functional
Programming... it will be interesting how it compares to Ruby, and I
would like to learn how to use Ruby as a functional language.

I'll be using Ruby for my dissertation, I'll be developing some type
of program that uses Fuzzy Logic... possibly something to do with
Robotics, Agents or Control... not sure yet.

Please continue to discuss,

Thanks,

Daniel.