Nope, you had it right before. Matlab is commercial (and very expensive) software that the python matplotlib/scipy/numpy combination may replace for some people. The benefit of that is many people know and use matlab, so using matplotlib is familiar to them.
- Bryan > Ok well on second thought, MATLAB probably is MATLIB... > > On 28 June 2011 20:10, Wernher Eksteen <wekst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
