From: coreyhaines@...
Date: 2007-11-21T04:15:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Choosing a scripting language for scientific programming

have you looked at F#?

On 11/20/07, deltaquattro <deltaquattro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a Fortran scientific programmer, and recently I have had to write
> a lot of shell scripts which let different codes communicate by means
> of I/O files. Right now I'm using awk and (to a lesser extent) perl to
> do this. However, I'd like to learn a newer scripting language and at
> the same time learn OOP, so I'm choosing between Python and Ruby. The
> applications I have in mind are:
>
> 1) (easy) automatic I/O files manipulation. Calculations, comparisons,
> etc. among values contained in tables, and correspondent modfication
> of the table entries;
> 2) (less easy) semi-automatic generation of graph, images, report,
> etc., based on data in huge binary files (O(Gb));
> 3) (hard) create GUIs for scientifc codes, which could enable
> unexperienced users to run the codes;
>
> Which are the main differences between Ruby and Python? Which is
> easier to learn? I've seen a lot of numerical libraries/extensions for
> Python: does Ruby also support scientific programming? Thanks,
>
> Best regards,
>
> deltaquattro
>
>
>
>


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