Maybe it is of relevance after all... PDL is "free software". The authors of PDL think that this concept has several advantages: everyone has access to the sources -> better debugging, easily adaptable to your own needs, extensible for your purposes, etc... In comparison with commercial packages such as MATLAB and IDL this is of considerable importance for workers who want to do some work at home and cannot afford the considerable cost to buy commercial packages for personal use.
Wernher On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Wernher Eksteen <crypt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure if this is relevant, but I stumbled on this.. http://pdl.perl.org/ > > Wernher > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Bryan R Harris >> <bryan_r_har...@raytheon.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I much prefer perl to python given my recent forays into that language >>> (python's regex is awful!), however it has an excellent plotting package >>> that is very similar to matlab but supports things like marker alphas. It's >>> called matplotlib, and requires scipy and numpy. >>> >>> PDL is the closest thing I see in perl, but it seems to be clunky and makes >>> relatively ugly plots. >>> >>> Any thoughts on why that is?: >>> >>> (a) in python it's easier to make things like this >>> (b) python has more scientific users so it makes sense one would build it >>> (c) perl users tend to be lazier and less likely to make something like this >>> (d) somebody funded that development and happened to pay a python guy >>> (e) ?? >>> >>> Just curious, thanks for your thoughts. >>> >>> - Bryan >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >>> http://learn.perl.org/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> Not exactly sure personally. But here is an article that may be of interest. >> >> http://www.stat.washington.edu/~hoytak/blog/whypython.html >> >> Sayth >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >> >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
