[jtprince]

It's hard to argue with SciPy's success--it is well engineered, relatively easy to use, highly useful, and well documented. Though SciRuby should be able to do most of what SciPy is capable of, we don't plan on SciRuby being a SciPy rewrite. We all pretty much use matlab, R (and scipy), as well as ruby, so these are all influences.