From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-04-28T22:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Cosmological distances with ruby

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Cameron McBride wrote:

> On 4/27/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's interesting that there's two different Ruby bindings to GSL
>> ("Ruby/GSL" and ruby-gsl). Any idea why that is? Sometimes when
>> there's two projects like this, it turns out that one is more of a
>> straight wrapper, while the other has been worked a little to have
>> more of the flavor of the language wrapping it. Is that the case here?
>
> Some might consider that a fair distinction between the two bindings,
> although both camps have included code from the other at one point or
> another.  IMO, Arno's (http://ruby-gsl.sourceforge.net/) is a bit more of a
> straight forward binding whereas Yoshiki added a few things to round some
> corners (and hence it's the one I use).  Also, Yoshiki put a good deal of
> time into documentation - which is always a good thing!

lastly, yoshiki's versions allows one to intermix narray and gsl routines
which is really sweet.

cheers.

-a
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