[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:04079] Re: What are you using Ruby for?

From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2000-07-17 11:44:33 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4079
On 15 Jul 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> A quick survey: what are all you folks (yes, including all you lurkers 
> out there) using Ruby for? As well as the normal scripting stuff, are
> there people using Ruby in interesting ways?
> 
* General Machine Learning (AI) framework integrating Machine Learning
algorithms mostly written in C and C++ into a Ruby framework. Thus, the
*very* performance-hugry parts are low-level C/C++ and I use Ruby to
integrate it all together.

I plan to use Ruby as my "main" language in future development since I
find it an ideal "glue" language. It's OO nature forces/helps me to get a
basic design "right" but I can still use old code by integrating using the
Ruby/C/C++ interface. For me a crucial aspect in choosing Ruby is
RubyUnit and the style of development it fosters.

Thanks to all you folks in the Ruby community making all these things
possible. I hope to contribute as I learn more...

Regards,

Robert Feldt


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