[LRUG] FW: [Upcoming.org]: keithb sent you a note!

[Edward Garson]

Sorry, I didn't frame the problem correctly: I am aware of SWIG and
that Ruby is used in technical and scientific domains.

It is my personal opinion that if Ruby were not used on the project it
is not a reflection of its considerable technical capabilities. Ruby
is a paragon of language design.

The problem is pyschological.

Have fun

On 17/07/06, James Adam <james.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Edward,
>
> What's your kernel written in? I can highly recommend the use of Ruby
> as a high-level-logic/gui glue language, acting as an interface
> between the number-crunching components in your software, and the more
> flexible higher-level algorithms. It also opens up your application to
> scriptability. You should take a look at SWIG for generating the
> wrapper code - with a bit of time spent you can be controlling your
> libraries within Ruby.
>
> For my PhD work I used it to drive a C++ data cruncher searching a
> problem space with more solutions than there are atoms in the
> universe, and linking that to an OpenGL display which displayed the
> results in the form of cute fuzzy digital bees
> (http://lazyatom.com/media/images/digital-bees.jpg) . It worked really
> well, and writing the high-level algorithms in Ruby sped up
> development greatly. I can't stress that last point enough.
>
> - james
>
> On 7/17/06, Edward Garson <egarson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As an employee of Zuhlke in London I have to laugh at this a bit, this
> > is my boss posting, and we are not *all* heavily "enterprise" based
> > nor enamored with .NET/Java.
> >
> > If I could program in Ruby more - and be paid for it - then that would
> > be great. If anyone has any suggestions on how I could fit Ruby into
> > my current project, new steam turbine design software using a 3D
> > geometry kernel, then I'd be delighted to hear your suggestions.
> > Sometimes reality kicks in (and kicks you in the face at the same
> > time).
> >
> > If anyone is interested in presenting then I suggest getting in touch
> > with me as I can give you some guidelines and suggestions that you may
> > find helpful.
> >
> > Have fun
> >
> > Edward
> >
> > On 17/07/06, Anthony Green <email at acgreen.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > ------ Forwarded Message
> > > > From: <kbr at zuhlke.com>
> > > > Date: 17 Jul 2006 08:21:20 -0700
> > > > To: <email at acgreen.co.uk>
> > > > Subject: Ruby Speaker wanted
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for a speaker to do a short talk at the
> > > > next Zuhlke staff meeting in London, 31 July. We could pay epxenses and I'm
> > > > sure that a few beers would find their way to the speaker, too.
> > > >
> > > > I'm interested in having someone come and present some fresh views on
> > > > development to the heavily "enterprise" biased (J2EE/.NET) staff currently at
> > > > Zuhlke.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Keith
> > >
> > > ------ End of Forwarded Message
> > >
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