Wow, I had not realised, time flies when you have fun. It would be nice to come up with some way to mark this although I am uncertain how close we would be to a final V2 (as it assumes a V3 being close). But then I have not participated in recent development.
Is another publication a possibility? Christian > On 8/06/2016, at 12:42 am, Karl Glazebrook <karlglazebr...@mac.com> wrote: > > The thought occurred to me that we are approaching the 20-year anniversary of > PDL this coming October 23rd! > > It is amazing to me that it is now this old, doesn’t seem like 20 years has > gone by. Makes me feel really old. > > Here is the original announcement for the nostalgic: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.perl.misc/glazebrook$20pdl/comp.lang.perl.misc/MJ8TL5pDaUk/LKWfyhHNCooJ > > Do we want to mark this in anyway? Maybe release a ‘final' version of PDL 2? > (which should be v.2.71828182845905 following Knuth...) > > Karl > > p.s. First stupid code was written in Feb of 1996 - this is described in the > PDL book. > > ———— > > Subject: ANNOUNCE: perlDL v1.00 - the 'perl Data Language’ 10/23/96 > > `perlDL' ("perl Data Language") gives standard perl the ability > to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N- > dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of > scientific computing. > > The idea is to turn perl in to a, free, array-oriented, > numerical language in the same sense as commerical packages like > IDL and MatLab. One can write simple perl expressions to > manipulate entire numerical arrays all at once. > > For example with `perlDL' the perl variable `$a' can hold a > 1024x1024 floating point image, it only takes 4Mb of memory to > store it and expressions like `$a=sqrt($a)+2' would manipulate > the whole image in a few seconds. > > A simple interactive shell ("`perldl'") is provided for command > line use together with a module ("`PDL'") for use in perl > scripts. > > v1.00 is the first official alpha release. It provides the > fundumental numerical processing facilities and a limited set of > standard functions. Graphics are supported via the perl PGPLOT > module and image display via the external programs > saoimage/ximtool. The goal is to allow perlDL to interact with a > variety of external graphics systems. I/O is currently supported > via the FITS standard, though given the simple design it ought > to be possible to create perl code to read many common formats. > > There are of course many things missing from this first release > but it is hoped that perlDL will grow through efforts of > interested users. It has a modular design to encourage this. > > Where to obtain perlDL: > > Home Site: > > WWW: http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/ > > ftp: ftp://ftp.aao.gov.au/pub/perldl/ > > Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN): > > ftp: In directory modules/by-module/PDL/ > > WWW: You can automatically select your LOCAL CPAN site by going > to: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/PDL/ > > The PGPLOT module is available from (among others): > > http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~kgb/pgperl.html (Home Page/General > information) > > http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/PGPLOT/ > > ftp://ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk/pub/kgb/pgperl/ > > ftp://ftp.aao.gov.au/pub/pgperl/ > > SAOimage is available from: > > http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html > > Documentation > > The current perlDL documentation is available from > http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/PDL.html > > Mailing List > > Finally, a mailing list has been set up to talk about perlDL and > for developers to coordinate their work. > > The address of the list is per...@jach.hawaii.edu. To subscribe, > send a message to perldl-...@jach.hawaii.edu containing a > string in the following format: > > subscribe me@my.email.address > > I hope you find perlDL useful and enjoyable, > > Karl Glazebrook. email: k...@aaoepp.aao.gov.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ pdl-devel mailing list pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel
