From: Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@...>
Date: 2008-11-28T09:15:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Good math/stats libraries for Ruby?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 20:09, Saji N. Hameed <saji@apcc21.net> wrote:
> I wish there was a Ruby port of the NCAR Command Language,
> (http://ncl.ucar.edu) a set of libraries for numerical data
> analysis and visualisation. There
> is a Python version though http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/ .  If there is some
> group effort in making a port of this to Ruby, I will volunteer to help,
> with my minimal ruby skills (i am better with scientific data analyis
> though).

I've run across this a couple times, but have never tried to use it.
NCAR seems targeted at atmospheric science.  Besides plotting, what
advantages does it have over the GSL bindings?  What advantages would
it bring to have a ruby binding?  My guess is it'd be the same people
that use NCAR, but now they could script using ruby syntax.  While
that is a fine goal, I'm not sure it would satisfy the broader scope
(but I could be wrong, which is why I'm asking).

Cameron