Karl>Yes I am now getting increasingly motivated to get back to the
Karl>tutorial thing.

Sure. Sounds good.

I have to say, though, the navbar on pdl.perl.org looks a bit, um, less than
fully impressive. That might push some away. Heck, upgrading the website
every year or so makes people assured someone is paying attention without
reading the list ;)

The graphics examples are certainly nice, but maybe it would be nice if the
explanation of the commands used (inserted as single line # perl comments?)

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.

From my perspective, you only need debian and redhat. I think many other
distros can handle their formats.

But there is one problem with Debian, for sure. Graphics/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.pm uses PGPLOT.pm but PGPLOT isn't in debian. I'm not a debian developer, Perhaps I
should become one, for this.

FYI: I'm a professional perl programmer who took a good bit of math in college. I had this one problem for which a graphical 3d solution would be ideal. Still haven't
figured out the right way to use points3d the way I want.

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