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1) I'm beginning to move into the computational biology field... Your thoughts on using Ruby in this capacity? Its not high frequency trading, but yeah I'd like

• cageface 15y ago
  I'd suggest you start with Python. It's widely used in the ML/AI community and in computational biology so the libraries and documentation are quite good. I'm a big fan of Ruby but it's got a lot of catching up to do here. I'd leave C++ alone for the time being. Once you've explored the concepts in a simpler, higher-level language you can start to think about making them fast.
• mitchty 15y ago
  1) You'd be better off with Python most likely due to library support. (numpy etc...) 2) Why would it? I won't say I'm fluent in c++, but thats mainly due to not having to use it daily. That and I prefer straight c normally, I tend to dig into kernel source and drivers often so c++ isn't a big deal most times. But don't let language preferences of anyone guide you, evaluate what works best and use it for your problems. I like ruby in general but sometimes python is a better choice, other times perl, other times c, or even shell. Don't optimize code you haven't written yet. Explore the domain with ruby if you want and write a faster version in c once you understand the problem. Or java or whatever.