From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2010-12-19T12:53:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and science ?

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> Perhaps it's not as low-level and bare-metal as MRI, but it's a better 
experience for many, many cases. And that's the Ruby way.

excellent points all charles - as usual!

i think my only warning is: if one is expecting to work with a pile of 
legacy fortran and c (the only science environment i've ever worked in) then 
just bite the bullet and learn compiler-fu.  if you are lucky, maybe you can 
work in a more enlightened environment...

for the record i am aware of a few large projects that *are* using huge java 
code bases - i have simply never personally never been lucky enough not to 
step into piles of f77 code... ;-(

in the end i think the silos that exist in science, before all else, should 
determine the tool set.  just the nature of the beast.

cheers.

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style=3D"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">excellent points all charles - as usual!=
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34, 34); "><br></span></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"=
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">i think my only warning is: if one is expecting t=
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ve ever worked in) then just bite the bullet and learn compiler-fu. &nbsp;i=
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or: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">for the record i am aware of a few large projects th=
at *are* using huge java code bases - i have simply never personally never =
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4, 34); ">in the end i think the silos that exist in science, before all el=
se, should determine the tool set. &nbsp;just the nature of the beast.</spa=
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4); "><br></span></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color=
: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">cheers.</span></div>
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