From: Greg Donald <gdonald@...>
Date: 2009-05-13T23:51:19+09:00
Subject: Re: what could be improved in Ruby for Science?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Diego Virasoro
<Diego.Virasoro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 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.
>
> 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?

Sounds like personal choice to me.

But for example Matt Wood stated he processes 250TBs of genetics data
per day with Ruby:

http://www.vimeo.com/1104164?pg=embed&sec=1104164

I'm working in genetics research as well, and we're really only using
Rails for our new web dev projects.


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Greg Donald
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