From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-12-21T04:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and science ?

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Benjamin J. Racine
<bjracine@glosten.com> wrote:
> I totally understand the desire to have thse capabilities and the elegance of ruby, but I think you'd find the science and engineering community in the python world worth looking at in more detail.
>
> Numpy, scipy, matplotlib, ipython mayavi2 are some buzzwords to look up and then decide for yourself.

What I'd really like to see are FFI-based wrappers around key science
and math libraries, rather than more blasted C extensions that can't
be run concurrently and aren't easily portable across impls. FFI works
incredibly well for these isolated libraries (as opposed to FFI for
kernel-level features, which can have many platofrm-specific
differences).

C extensions are the devil.

- Charlie