[Radiance-general] Research tools: who what which how?

[Chris Jones]

I would think that ruby would be a good candidate due to its close 
tie to OpenStudio and measure writing.

At 08:37 PM 12/04/2016, you wrote:
>We recently had an inconclusive discussion of computer languages over
>on radiance-dev. At the end of it, I was left wondering what languages
>people are using in their research, engineering, and design practices.
>
>My impression is that Python has become something of a standard in the
>research community, with tools like SciPy, NumPy, and SAGE widely
>used, though Perl has a library comparable to NumPy in PDL, and there
>is a SciRuby also, of course, LISP.
>
>On the statistical side there is R and Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
>
>Then there is MATLAB, Mathematica, MAPLE, and even Maxima is still around.
>
>I suppose we might also have some Visual Basic and C# users around
>
>So who is using what? What do people like?
>
>Randolph
>
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