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Yeah I agree the programmers whose code I'm reading are likely skewing the sample. But, as anecdata, when I moved to my current lab I requested that we not code
by Blahah 13y ago
Yeah I agree the programmers whose code I'm reading are likely skewing the sample. But, as anecdata, when I moved to my current lab I requested that we not code in perl because people were writing unreadable, unmaintainable code. When we stiched to Ruby en masse, people really pulled it out of the bag and we now have really quite a nice codebase. I think the very strong community focus on standards in Ruby helped that along, as did the basic aesthetic of the language.
- chrisseaton 13y agoDo you know many scientists who code in Ruby? Is any of your code open source? I'm interested in scientific uses of Ruby.
- Blahah 13y agoYes, I know quite a few. In computational genomics in the south-east UK there's us (University of Cambridge Plant Sciences), Queen Mary University (Yannick Wurm's group), and The Sainsbury Lab at the John Innes Centre in Norwich (Dan Maclean's lab). In-progress code for my PhD is mostly on Github: http://github.com/Blahah http://github.com/Blahah See also BioRuby, biogems.info, sequenceserver.com