NASA using Ruby?

[Harry Ohlsen]

I noticed a reference in the intro blurb for Dave Thomas's talk at OSCON to NASA doing numerical simulations using Ruby.

However, a number of quick googles have failed to find any mention of it. I expected that it might be in the Real World Ruby section of RubyGarden, but it's not there, either.

Does anyone have any further information, or a URL?

Cheers,

Harry O.

 

[Hal E. Fulton]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Ohlsen" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: NASA using Ruby?

I noticed a reference in the intro blurb for Dave Thomas's talk at OSCON

to NASA doing numerical simulations using Ruby.

However, a number of quick googles have failed to find any mention of it.

I expected that it might be in the Real World Ruby section of RubyGarden,
but it's not there, either.

Does anyone have any further information, or a URL?

IIRC, Bil Kleb was using Ruby to help
investigate the Columbia disaster. That's all
I know about.

It caught the attention of David Alan Black and
me because he was using scanf.

And David's comment was, "Well, at least scanf
didn't CAUSE the disaster..."

Hal

 

[Jim Freeze]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Ohlsen" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: NASA using Ruby?


to NASA doing numerical simulations using Ruby.
I expected that it might be in the Real World Ruby section of RubyGarden,
but it's not there, either.

IIRC, Bil Kleb was using Ruby to help
investigate the Columbia disaster. That's all
I know about.

It caught the attention of David Alan Black and
me because he was using scanf.

And David's comment was, "Well, at least scanf
didn't CAUSE the disaster..."

I don't know. Was there any foam used in the construction
of scanf?

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Freeze" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: NASA using Ruby?



More than you know.

Has Ruby entered the space age (outer space) ?

 

[Jim Freeze]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Freeze" <[email protected]>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: NASA using Ruby?



More than you know.

You're scaring me Hal.

 

[why the lucky stiff]

There should be a group at NASA that makes sure to inform each open source
project that is sent into orbit.

I'm told that XML actually originated in space (despite what you may say about
it's SGML origins.) Yeah, it was an alien disease that came down in the
jacket of a cosmonaut. It started as a swarm of hovering ping pong balls and
later formed the noxious mist that we all breathe nowadays.

Okay, that was mean. I won't do it again.

_why

 

[Rasputin]

If it is true that XML is a kind of disease, would you go so far as to
say that it is "viral"? If so, isn't it like the GPL?

rofl
Are you the sort of guy who glues pork chops to his car when he
drives through Safari parks?

 

[why the lucky stiff]

If it is true that XML is a kind of disease, would you go so far as to
say that it is "viral"? If so, isn't it like the GPL?

Well, I would go _that_ far, Lyle. But I am considering GPLing a strain of
barley yellow dwarf virus that can be encoded into XML and injected into
wheat. Sure, the plant dies, but the aphids will get a good taste of markup.
This will be a very advantageous to those of us who are willing to employ
aphids, but find that they often lack the experience.

_why

 

[Hal E. Fulton]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyle Johnson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: XML is a disease?

If it is true that XML is a kind of disease, would you go so far as to
say that it is "viral"? If so, isn't it like the GPL?

Oh, you are a wicked man.

 

[Shashank Date]

http://www.iplab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~jiro/matsu.html

http://linux.ascii24.com/linux/news/today/2000/04/24/442368-000.html

http://linux.ascii24.com/linux/news/today/2000/12/01/imageview/images594528.
jpg.html
http://linux.ascii24.com/linux/news/today/2000/12/01/imageview/images594400.
jpg.html

http://www.masao-k.net/0_matz.htm

This last link has really awesome pictures ... where is this beautiful
place?
(sigh, cannot read the Japanese text around the pics).

<whisper>

By the way, these are pictures of Yukihiro Matsumoto ( a fairly common
Japanese name, I understand). Not of 'Matz'.

'Matz' is like the French Mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki. Just a name
adopted
by a team of talented Japanese programmers. Cannot be one person.

</whisper>

Ok, so I was only kidding. Sorry Matz, could not resist

Park Heesob

Thanks, Park, for hunting these out.
-- shanko

 

[Mauricio Fernández]

This last link has really awesome pictures ... where is this beautiful
place?
(sigh, cannot read the Japanese text around the pics).

My guesses would be..
[...]

Check out this regional map of Japan:
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/RTG/RI/index.html You'll see that his trip
took place in the Shimane prefecture, in the Chugoku region.
Matz mentions going to church in Matsue on his blog and NaCl is in
Matsue, so I'm sure he lives in close proximity to all of the sights you see in
these photos.

Now, that's some serious detective work

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You will not censor me through bug terrorism.
-- James Troup

 

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi,

In message "Re: Matz Photo URL ?"

|Matz mentions going to church in Matsue on his blog and NaCl is in
|Matsue, so I'm sure he lives in close proximity to all of the sights you see in
|these photos.

You've found out the truth. Impressive. Now you know why I don't
want to move from here.

matz.

 

[daz]

[snip]

http://www.masao-k.net/0_matz.htm

This last link has really awesome pictures ... where is this beautiful
place?
(sigh, cannot read the Japanese text around the pics).

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babe...://www.masao-k.net/0_matz.htm&lp=ja_en&tt=url

(leaves the photos in Japanese)


Is there a glimpse of Nobu Nakada somewhere among those ?

Thanks, Park, for hunting these out.
-- shanko

Thanks indeed.

daz

 

[Brian Candler]

[snip]

http://www.masao-k.net/0_matz.htm

This last link has really awesome pictures ... where is this beautiful
place?
(sigh, cannot read the Japanese text around the pics).

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babe...://www.masao-k.net/0_matz.htm&lp=ja_en&tt=url

(leaves the photos in Japanese)

I liked this caption:

"Left hand inner part oven seat of origin. 256 + times, the ruby conquest
compilation was decorated!"

Will the brave code-warriers be awarded a medal for their repeated struggles
against gcc? Will the air-conditioning finally get fixed? Tune in to next
week's episode of "The Knights of Matsumoto Castle" to find out...

Cheers,

Brian.

 

[nobu.nokada]

Hi,

At Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:07:05 +0900,

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babe...://www.masao-k.net/0_matz.htm&lp=ja_en&tt=url

Note that babelfish mistranslates Matz's name, "origin whom
here waits", "cause of waitings" and so on.

Is there a glimpse of Nobu Nakada somewhere among those ?

21, 25 and 35.

 

[Bil Kleb]

I noticed a reference in the intro blurb for Dave Thomas's talk at OSCON
to NASA doing numerical simulations using Ruby.

I expected that it might be in the Real World Ruby section of
RubyGarden, but it's not there, either.

I've gone there on a couple of occasions to add an entry buy never
found enough gumption to follow through...

Does anyone have any further information, or a URL?

Sorry, I've let ruby-lang go unread for a while...

He may have been referring to myself and Bill Wood.

We've been using Ruby since 2000 or so when we did a prototype
Extreme Programming (XP) project. We developed a couple numerical
simulation prototypes using XP. The experience is written up in
the May-June 2003 IEEE Software magazine as well as the 2002
http://xpuniverse.com/ conference proceedings.

We have been using Ruby at every opportunity since.

Recently using http://www.googlism.com/ I found an IBM article which
mentions some of our work with Ruby:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-oslab/

and it seems that we managed to not use the word "Ruby" in our abstract
that was included in the NASA's Tech Briefs magazine announcement,

http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Dec02/LAR16494.html

which also describes how one can request a copy of our code and
inflate our local management by objectives metrics --- read DeMarco's
/Slack/ to uncover the inside joke...

Regards,