From: Nuralanur@...
Date: 2006-07-05T01:03:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ed borasky and his second favourite programming language

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Thank you, Paul, for the link.
Assuming that Ara's link to Ed Borasky's opinions also makes the case for  R, 
I've two questions:
 
obviously, you can like features of R very much, but what do you do
if the code you have to write doesn't have anything to do with  statistics?
What are the nice features of R that make it superior to Ruby in Ed
Borasky's opinion - and do we agree with him ?
 
Ruby is "more general" than R (since there are bindings for R  available),
and there are also bindings to other scientific  programs/packages e.g., GSL 
(if you want to to do numerical integration or random number  generation).
 
I think one should compare languages that do about the same things
with respect to how they do it.
 
Best regards,
 
Axel 

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