I am happy to report that the PDL demo was a resounding success. There
were about 7 folks familiar with Perl in a room of about 30. There
were universal oooohs and ahhhs when I did the routines with m51
"Whirlpool galaxy." The point-in-poly stuff back-ending my web site
also earned a few dazzled smiles.

So, thanks first to KGB and the rest of the gang. You have created an
awesome, awesome tool.

The PDL shell is an incredibly useful device to do presentations --
none of the Powerpoint crap... just plain PDL shell. Y'know what would
be nicer -- colored syntax in pdl> shell.

Trivia -- I know that installing NumPy/SciPy is a pain because I have
tried to do so and failed. I was under the impression that Enthought
binaries were free. Not so at all. Chris and others should be proud of
making it easier and easier to install PDL with every iteration. And,
everyone should be proud of keeping PDL's awesomeness free and open. I
know a couple of three folks in the audience who indicated that they
would try out SciPDL (thanks Matt).

Another trivia -- in my research, I learned that piddles will become
first-class citizens in Perl6. Does that mean that PDL will kinda get
subsumed in mainstream Perl6? That would be really fantastic.

Anyway, thanks everyone. I had a fun afternoon on the back of PDL.


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wanted: nifty one-liners for PDL demo this aft. Could be any field, but more
> fun if they are spatial data/remote sensing related. But really, niftiness
> trumps field. Please share your craft. In return, I will put all of these up
> in the cookbook.
>..

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