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/ >> > >> > >> > >> > >
