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I wrote this article almost a year ago as a tribute to my favorite language at the time. (That title now belongs to Clojure.) It feels like if you want to do sc

by djacobs 15y ago

I wrote this article almost a year ago as a tribute to my favorite language at the time. (That title now belongs to Clojure.) It feels like if you want to do scientific computing in Ruby, you're met with obstacles at every turn, but with Python, you're greeted with open arms and tested libraries. That could change (and I'm beginning work on a stats library for Ruby), but it will take time. This was partially a call to action to the Ruby community to start thinking about more than Web protocols and NoSQL databases. For a more thoughtful comparison, feel free to check out my followup posts.

clojurerocks 15y ago
I had a similiar experience myself actually. You should actually check out the R language if youre interested in scientific computing. Speaking of the python communittee i watched many videos from djangocon this year and was really impressed by the openness of the leaders of the project. Also django i think is rally starting to gain more momentum. Alot of very cool things going on with the framework and communitee..
- sunsu 15y ago
  From the article: "I’ve already used Ruby at work to dramatically speed up some of our vaccine screens—for processing and summarizing data—but I’ve always had to pipe my numbers into R for statistics and graphing. Because unfortunately, despite all the hubbub around Ruby, no one is crunching numbers with it! I’m sick of R, though, and I want a complete solution for my numbers needs."
anaccountiguess 15y ago
have you tried Mathematica? in terms of abstractive power, i haven't found a more powerful language (it's 1 notch more abstract than Lisp) and it comes with a ton of statistics/science stuff and can import infinity different formats http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Statistics.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Statistics.ht... http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/ImportingAndExporting.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/ImportingAndE...
Tichy 15y ago
What is the state of Incantr (or something like that was the name)? A Scientific Computing framework for Clojure.
- msutherl 15y ago
  For Clojure, there's also Clojuratica: <http://clojuratica.weebly.com/> http://clojuratica.weebly.com/>, which lets you trade data between Clojure and Mathematica seamlessly.
- msutherl 15y ago
  Pardon, here's a link that works: http://clojuratica.weebly.com/ http://clojuratica.weebly.com/

by djacobs 15y ago

clojurerocks 15y ago

I had a similiar experience myself actually. You should actually check out the R language if youre interested in scientific computing. Speaking of the python communittee i watched many videos from djangocon this year and was really impressed by the openness of the leaders of the project. Also django i think is rally starting to gain more momentum. Alot of very cool things going on with the framework and communitee..

sunsu 15y ago
From the article: "I’ve already used Ruby at work to dramatically speed up some of our vaccine screens—for processing and summarizing data—but I’ve always had to pipe my numbers into R for statistics and graphing. Because unfortunately, despite all the hubbub around Ruby, no one is crunching numbers with it! I’m sick of R, though, and I want a complete solution for my numbers needs."

anaccountiguess 15y ago

have you tried Mathematica? in terms of abstractive power, i haven't found a more powerful language (it's 1 notch more abstract than Lisp) and it comes with a ton of statistics/science stuff and can import infinity different formats http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Statistics.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Statistics.ht... http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/ImportingAndExporting.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/ImportingAndE...

Tichy 15y ago

What is the state of Incantr (or something like that was the name)? A Scientific Computing framework for Clojure.

msutherl 15y ago
For Clojure, there's also Clojuratica: <http://clojuratica.weebly.com/> http://clojuratica.weebly.com/>, which lets you trade data between Clojure and Mathematica seamlessly.
msutherl 15y ago
Pardon, here's a link that works: http://clojuratica.weebly.com/ http://clojuratica.weebly.com/