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

[Christopher Rush]

I had recently been assuming python would become our go-to for data manipulation based on popularity, but I'm learning that shouldn't be my assumption within the Radiance community - which I bet was Randolph's original intent in this thread.

Maybe I'll attempt Ruby for the next solution I need to sort out.

For me personally, I'll probably never really "learn" any of these, I'll just Google search snippets to cobble together whatever I need - but only when bash can't do it well and the internet can present a better solution   : )    I suppose I could say I've "learned" bash because I've examined enough snippets and written enough from scratch for multiple years, but unless I attempted to abandon bash and tried to do all of my six-scripts-per-year in python/ruby/etc I'll remain a newbie in each one.

Sorry - didn't mean to hijack the thread - just throwing in an extra perspective. I don't really need any specific guidance at the moment.

-Chris


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