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

Benjohn Barnes benjohn at fysh.org
Wed Jul 19 13:19:56 PDT 2006


On 17 Jul 2006, at 20:01, James Adam 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.

With Ruby/DL, you may not even need to use SWIG. You can just load up  
your c library, tell ruby what's in it (using some Ruby code), and  
start calling it.





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