On Sunday 21 November 2010 13:41:46 Jarle Brinchmann wrote: > IDL tends to be used by a wide range of astronomers - observers use it to > analyse and reduce data, quite a few theorists also use it to analyse the > output of their observations. Python is widely used particularly in the > observer community. Quite a few IDL adepts have moved to python/numpy over > the last 4-5 years. Perl tends to be used by all groups, theorists often > [...]
there are S-lang and TCL in use too, used by a few very large projects, though they seem to be losing momentum in favour of Python (the Chandra "CIAO" software moved to Python, and XSPEC is starting to experiment with a Python interpreter) > PDL has its roots in the observational community and is probably more used > there than in other areas but the fact is that IDL is used also quite a bit > among theoreticians and in particular the OpenGL link in PDL should make it > very appealing to that segment too (although they won't write their > simulation code in PDL any time soon :). This is basically because data not speaking about data visualisation, but I do have written simulation code in PDL :) vectorized code and native support of the FITS format were the "killer features" for this.. cheers Piero _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
