From: CodeToad <TheOldCodeToad@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T23:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: What's in YOUR Ruby??? Could Ruby ever be a g.p. dev language?

Hi Ed,

On Oct 25, 10:17 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@cesmail.net>
wrote:
> CodeToad wrote:
[...snip...]

> > What are you doing with ruby?
>
> Pretty much anything I can. At the moment I'm seeing how tightly I can
> tweak the interpreter using "standard" Gnu/Linux tricks.

Hope you write that up!

> > What would you *like* to do with ruby?
>
> The "big bad project" is something called RAMEAU
> (http://cougar.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/Rameau/Rameau.pdf), which is
> really more like a Linux distro than a Ruby project, although all of the
> infrastructure above the (Gentoo) Linux level is in Ruby. But I have
> some smaller things I want to do as well.
>
[...snip...] because I can hack on existing Lisp code like AthenaCL
and Common Music.

Yea! Another Lisp Guy.

> When I do something numeric/statistical, I do it in R, and when I do
> scripting/DSL/etc., I do it in Ruby.

Me too. R/S/S+. Also use a lot of monte carlo and predictive/
constrained decision support, so I still pay decisioneering and @risk
in C++. I still really like to stick with oo.

> > Do you see ruby as a focal-point or general purpose language?
>
> It's general purpose in the sense that it's a good combination of the
> best parts of Perl and Java. But it's not general purpose in the same
> sense as C or C++ -- yet. :)
>
I can't get over my general dislike for Java. Seems like a lot of work
to do anything done.

> > Has anyone worked with ruby along side c++ ?
>
> There are plenty of interfaces to C++ code in Ruby -- most of the major
> C++ open source libraries have Ruby bindings, for example.

Found 'em and putting them to work!

> > Has anyone tryed ruby with Qt4 ?
>
> There is an excellent Ruby library/binding for both Qt3 and Qt4.
>
> > How about ruby with a big, bad oo-database like Objectivity?
>
> Never heard of it.
>
Fast, sweet, no more 00-to-relational mapping, just about zero DBA
work
some AI features built in. Eats huge amounts of XML. Likes smalltalk.
I've seen it used to create those huge node-and-branch maps. It seems
that a lot of 3 letter agencies use it quite a bit, which makes sense.
I can see it used well in economertics and regional data (not really
GIS). one of my few clients who pay on time brokers inetlllectual
property, and as far as I know I'm one of the few using american
options and I can easily see using something like that for the IP
work.

>
>
> > Thanks,
> >OldCodeToad
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