From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-04-23T01:03:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for Hidden Gems

Sorry for the delayed response, I've been on vacation.

On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:11 AM, ara.t.howard wrote:

>
> On Apr 13, 2008, at 7:40 AM, James Gray wrote:
>> I bet that's great library, but, not being a scientist, I'm  
>> probably the wrong guy to talk it up.  Thanks for the suggestion  
>> though Ara.
>
>
> A) it's the single biggest ruby project after rails.  think about  
> that!

I didn't know that.  That is interesting.

> B) take 50% of the list where people say 'ruby is too slow at XXXX'  
> or why can't i do 'XXX' - the gsl is by far the largest container of  
> algorithms on rubyforge, but orders of magnitude, it's not just  
> science: scan this list
>
>  http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/ref.html
>
> and you'll see things like 'complex numbers', 'vectors', 'matrices'  
> 'permutations', 'FFT', 'random number generation', 'statistics', and  
> 'NArray compatibilities'
>
> scan the list of ruby quizes and you'll see where i'm headed ;-)

Yeah, these are all good points.  I'll give it some deeper  
consideration. Thanks!

James Edward Gray II