I really don't know much about MATLIB, but looking on their site it doesn't seem free: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
I stumbled on PDL by chance and remembered someone asking if Perl could do this and so shared in the hope it might help. On 28 June 2011 20:01, Brendan Gilroy <bdgil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't MatPlotLib free as well? I don't think PDL's low cost is a > competitive > advantage for Perl over Python > > In this Perlmonks node: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=347028 , the > GD::Graphs module, and the PGPlot ( > http://search.cpan.org/search?query=pgplot&mode=all) and GnuPlot ( > http://search.cpan.org/search?query=gnuplot&mode=allapplications) are > discussed. I don't know enough about your task (or about Perl to be honest) > to know if those will help, but that is as far as my googling gets me. > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Wernher Eksteen <crypt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > > > >
