From: Nuralanur@...
Date: 2006-07-05T04:14:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ed borasky and his second favourite programming language

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Dear Ed,
 
 
>Gnuplot is just a
>plotting engine, though, isn't it? You still  have to do the analysis in
>some language, right?

That's true except for simple things- but there are Ruby bindings available  
for it.
 
> Have you looked at Singular?

No, but I will. Thanks for the reference. I couldn't find any bindings  on 
the first page of Google results for "Singular Ruby".
kan/sm1 is open source and free. It's part of OpenXM
 
_http://www.math.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/OpenXM_ 
(http://www.math.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/OpenXM)   .
 
Somewhere, they promise Ruby bindings for it, but these haven't  materialised
for me so far ( maybe it's  a compiling problem though).
 
 Maple and Mathematica aren't free of course. When I am angry at their  syntax
I sometimes feel that software can be protected from potential users by 
making it commercial :)
 
Best regards,
 
Axel
 

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