From: Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@...>
Date: 2010-05-08T07:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ease of porting (translating) ruby to C (vs. python)?

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 16:43, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@medioh.com> wrote:
> The main reason to use Python over Ruby for scientific computing is the
> community of scientific computing users of Python is larger and there are
> better libraries available.

I do not agree, but this is becoming the typical rant and somewhat
off-topic.  ;)  Anyhow, there are some libraries that are better
developed for python (e.g. plotting in something like matplotlib), but
functionally there are a lot of equivalent libraries available for
ruby as well (GSL, NArray, etc).

I have to make this point since I've been using ruby for many years to
do science (since ~2002) without much pain at all.

Cameron