From: bwv549 <jtprince@...>
Date: 2010-05-08T01:20:07+09:00
Subject: ease of porting (translating) ruby to C (vs. python)?

In a very small bioinformatics group I know of, they are deciding
whether to code mostly in python or ruby.  The lead knows that python
can "easily be ported to C because of its strictness."

How easy is it to port (translate) ruby code into C?  Anyone with
experience in doing this?  I've done a little and it seemed very easy,
but I've never translated python into C so I can't compare.

Discussion on alternatives (Inline, using C extensions, NArray,
#include ruby, etc.) is welcome, but I'd like to keep the main focus
on translating to C for this thread.

Thanks in advance!