On Aug 24, 2006, at 13:35 UTC, John Kubie wrote: > What are others' thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of > REALbasic as a scientific platform?
As you mentioned, you can develop a custom app very quickly. In some environments, it's helpful that you can make this cross-platform as well (or even just that the environment itself is cross-platform). It interfaces pretty well with custom hardware, having good support for serial devices and for declaring to shared libraries. Its major weakness for scientific computing would be the lack of a standard high-powered numerics library. However, Bob Delaney's plugins are very good, well-supported, and cover much of that sort of thing. > What should REALbasic, or its community, do to aid in cooperation > among science-oriented programmers? Interesting question. More standardization on numerics plug-ins, similar to the NumPy package in Python, would probably help. It'll be interesting to see if Bob responds to this thread. I don't recall whether his plugins are open-source, but if they are, then more people peeking at the code and contributing improvements would probably help everyone as well. (Not that his code isn't top-notch already!) Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
