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

[Georg Mischler]

I wouldn't jump to any conclusions about overall "popularity" from the
few responses to this thread. Of the people out there who have actually
written and published tools for Radiance, most did not respond.

On the other hand, Python versions of a number of the common scripts
in Radiance will be added to the distribution in the near future.
That will simplify a few things, especially for Windows users.
Of course that still doesn't mean that anyone has to learn the language
who doesn't otherwise care about it.

Cheers
-schorsch


Am 2016-04-19 00:16, schrieb 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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