From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2000-07-15T21:51:11-07:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04053] Re: What are you using Ruby for?

rubikitch  writes:

> Hi,

> 5) Numerical computation

Ooh, now that got my attention.  What kind of numerical computation?

As for myself, I don't use Ruby, at least not yet.  I'm just here
keeping an eye on it.  I use Python, mostly as an interactive
numerical workbench and scripting engine for c++ numerical codes,
using SWIG to automatically wrap the C++ classes.  Numeric Python is a
wonderful tool; is there anything like it for Ruby?

The fact that functions are not first class in Ruby still bothers me,
so I haven't experimented with it that much.

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Johann Hibschman                           johann@physics.berkeley.edu