From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-05-13T23:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: what could be improved in Ruby for Science?

Diego Virasoro wrote:

> I've noticed that languages such as Python are becoming more and more
> fashionable with the Scientific communities, along side more hard core
> classics like Fortran and Java.

Bioinformatics requires repeatedly shoveling huge blobs of data thru simple & 
not necessarily fast filters. Python (and Perl) scored early adoption here. They 
have nothing, technically, that Ruby doesn't have, including the slow part.

> Do you think  Ruby is missing some piece of technology to be useful in
> science? Or poor libraries?
> In the end what do you think that could be done to make Ruby more used
> in Science?

All Ruby needs is better libraries, supporting an interacting community of 
practitioners. Everyone needs faster a Ruby, and we have all the same 
visualization tools as Python.

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   Phlip