I think PDL will get more traction with Matlab users if we fix PDL to be more of a 1-click install and use experience and if we provide basic 2D and 3D graphics as part of a base PDL.
Another approach to Matlab support would be to add a Matlab interface for calling PDL routines from Matlab (sort of an Inline::PDL in Matlab, auto-Mex generation...) BUT, without a better documneted, more accessible PDL experience for new users, we're going to have an hard sell against the Matlab user experience... --Chris Gabor Szabo wrote: > On http://www.parrot.org/languages I found a project called Matrixy > which is an implementation of Octave. I don't know how complete it is > and how easy or difficult it will be to create PDL code from its parse > tree but I hope I could tease the author into subscribing to this list so > he will be able to give us an idea where things are standing. > > Gabor > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Gabor Szabo wrote: >> >>> I had an interesting chat with someone who pointed out that moving >>> people and companies away from Matlab will be extremely difficult >>> due to the huge amount of legacy code. >>> >>> So I wonder if anyone has ever experienced with parsing Matlab >>> code and then running it? >>> >> I would be interested in the answer to this question as well. >> >> Part of the motivation for a PDL::Matlab module was to enable >> some sort of automated translation between Matlab and PDL >> syntax and maybe between data types. >> >> However, the most difficult part of any conversion process is >> bound to be the conversion of the many builtin Matlab routines: >> there are many of them and a single routine can have many >> different outputs depending on the number and type of the >> input arguments, and sometimes the algorithm being used is >> not known in detail enough to substitute without much work. >> >> --Chris >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
