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 andhen decide for yourself.

Regards,
Ben R.


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From: Michel Demazure [michel / demazure.com]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 12:56 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Ruby and science ?

Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #969006:

> Not quite, but have a look at ruby-toolbox.com (IIRC), which gives an
> overview of what's available fir what. And there's the Ruby
> Application Archive, of course.
>
'gsl' was not in the toolbox, and (stupid me) I did not look in the RAA
!
_md

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