First of all, thank you very much for providing us with this amazing interpreter for studying the dynamic response of structures under the action of earthquakes and other dynamic loads!
The following is just a remainder
This request has been asked several times on the OpenSees Board that I would like to know its current status. Compiling OpenSees on a true object-oriented interpreter, such as Ruby or Python, will enable us to make more powerful and reusable scripts than ever before. For example, a great feature would be the possibility of gathering any information/data stored in the Domain Object, with the purpose of making certain operations with them, as shown in the following example (the syntax was taken from Ruby):
% m=Model.new("basic", 2, 3)
% m.type
=> "basic"
% m.ndm
=> 2
% m.ndf
=> 3
% if m.type == "basic"
% print "The model type is basic."
% end
=> "The model type is basic."
% node1=Node.new(3.00, 5.00)
% node1.x
=> 3.00
% node1.y
=> 5.00
% mat1=UniaxialMaterial.new("Concrete01", 1000, 21000., 0.0018, 15000., 0.0036)
% mat1.type
=> "UniaxialMaterial::Concrete01"
% mat1.tag
=> 1000
% mat1.fpc
=> 21000.
% mat1.epsc0
=> 0.0018
% mat1.fpcu
=> 15000.
% mat1.epsU
=> 0.0036
% 1.35*mat1.fpc
=> 28350.
and so on...
Thank you!
P.S. Perhaps these two links may be very helpful for you, if Ruby is intended to be used:
http://fixnum.org/blog/2007/ruby_c/
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/Programmin ... _ruby.html