From: Jonas Pfenniger <zimbatm@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T23:24:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-HL7 0.1.23

2007/3/19, bill walton <bill.walton@charter.net>:
> For those that aren't familiar with the healthcare space, there is
> some very interesting work going on there - work for which Ruby is
> very well suited, IMO.  A lot of the Bioinformatics folks, for
> example, have been using Perl for its pattern-matching capabilities
> for quite some time.  I'm of the opinion that Ruby, especially paired
> with Rails, has a very good chance at becoming the language / platform
> of choice in healthcare IT in the near future.

Interesting. Is perl or ruby also used inside medical equipments or is
it only used in organisational softwares ?

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  zimbatm