On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Xavier Calbet wrote:
This is what I find everywhere, people tend to choose other alternatives (IDL, MatLab, even Python!!) before PDL. Even though PDL is probably the best option. The question is how to overcome this? Maybe a simple introductory tutorial would help.
Yes I am now getting increasingly motivated to get back to the tutorial thing.
Another issue is ease of installation of PDL + a set of basic support libs. I have it cracked now on Mac OS X but linux and windows remain an issue. Linux is difficult because of the wide variety of distros, however the all work with the IDL binary distro so it may be doable.
Of course a third issue is peer recommendation. IDL is incredibly popular here because everybody else uses it. Outside the U.S. not so much,
A fourth issue is perl gets a bad rep in some places. Karl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
