From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T07:53:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Developing cross-platform web/GUI applications


On May 26, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to write cross-platform applications that either run in  
> the browser
> or run as standalone GUI applications in a functional programming  
> language.
>
> I understand that Ruby is a functional programming language and I was
> wondering:
>
> 1. How widely is Ruby used on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows?
>
> 2. Are there compilers/interpreters targetting the JVM/.NET that  
> make it
> easy to develop GUI applications?
>
> 3. Has anyone done any significant work in this area using Ruby?
>
> 4. Are scientists and engineers using Ruby?

http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com

we use it heavily here

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/index.html

these were made with ruby

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/interest/katrina.html

as were these

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/interest/india.html

regards.

-a
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