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looking around as I am doing now, I realize and accept that I have been using data formats like hpgl and tools like lisp and clos that are now getting rather obsolete and have fallen into disuse.
although I pulled the most out of them and can still do it, new tools and formats like ruby, xml, svg, pdf are worth exploring, and I can only progress by learning them and my work benefit by using and squeezing the most out of them.
I have always been and remain in fact near the intersection of ruby, narray, ruby-mathematica and ruby-svg, enough that I should only need little efforts to be up and running mastering these new tools in a space I know very well.
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after reading programming ruby and browsing some code i decided to learn and try it. i could not like ruby more than i do scheme: both have power and elegance, but scheme's support is dwindling rapidly, while ruby's is a bustling community. ruby gets modules for all the latest technologies and fads (xml, svg, google, xml-rpc).
ruby should soon be as active as python is (on the other hand, python programming is a more familiar territory for me).
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