From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T02:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Choosing a scripting language for scientific programming


On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Paul van Delst wrote:

>
> I use ruby to glue together a great deal of my Fortran executables.  
> More importantly for me, I also use ruby to generate a lot of  
> boilerplate Fortran code. I've never used ruby for graphing or GUIs  
> since I have a large IDL library for the former (although the tioga  
> link is intriguing), and I'm not too interested in the latter (for  
> my work stuff at least. "Users? What users?" :o).

you might interesting in a few peices of code we use then:

session.rb : allows one to drive idl from ruby

idlrun: runs any idl routine from the command line using a special  
syntax or yaml config file

yaml2idl: turns a yaml file into an idl declaration, we use this to  
configure idl programs via yaml

regards.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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