SciRuby: Science and Matrix Libraries For Ruby

Aciel writes "Ruby has long been popular in the web/business community, while Python dominates the scientific community. One new project seeks to bring balance to the force: SciRuby. We've already introduced a linear algebra library called NMatrix (currently alpha status). There's at least one fellowship available for students interested in working on the project this summer."

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Re:Do we really need this?

[Greyfox]

Better yet, can we leave them both to die? The only reason python didn't completely dominate the entire scripting and rapid prototyping arenas was because of that whitespace thing. They could have changed that at any time, but they refuse to even admit it's a problem. Fuck those guys. And Ruby... it actually tries and in the hands of a decent programmer it can actually be good. But I've suffered far too much at the hands of bad Ruby programmers to like Ruby anymore. I know that you shouldn't blame a language for its bad programmers, but its syntax is quirky enough that it makes bad programming particularly intolerable. So fuck those guys too.

I'd say I'd rather they just wrote it all in Java but... Oracle... fuck those guys. And C++ is a little too... esoteric... for many people to be all that good at it. So I guess that leaves us with Perl and C, pretty much where we were 20 years ago.