From: Cliff Rowley <cliffrowley@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T22:57:22+09:00
Subject: Re: DateTime irrationality

Len Lawrence wrote:
> I am starting to recode several home applications in Ruby/GTK2 after
> 16 years of Tcl/Tk and a foray into Ruby/Tk territory.  The simplest
> case would be my sidereal time widget which includes an Stime class,
> severely pruned below to show the to_s method (which has been altered
> to investigate the faulty behaviour described later).
>   
Just a matter of curiosity as an avid astronomer, what are you working 
on? ;-)

I have a few astro related projects I'm working on.  I started using 
Ruby but I fear it might be a little slow compared to others in some of 
the operations I'm performing (looking up star data from the TychoII 
catalog).  What are your experiences?  I considered using inline C but 
it's a can of worms I haven't dared open yet (based primarily on the 
fact I'm stuck on a Windows machine for development).

Anyways, I just thought it was cool to see someone else waxing astro 
with ruby ;-)

Cliff