On 2/4/2011 6:15 PM, P Kishor wrote: > 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.
I'm glad your presentation went well. > 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. Was this the perldl shell or the new pdl2 one? The new one has some basic color support but no syntax coloring at the moment. Should be doable. > 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. There are free versions of NumPy but a colleague of mine (a NumPy user) recently tried an install of PDL and was *very* pleased at how easily he got it up and running. > 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). If we can get the external dependencies sorted out then PDL should finally build out of the box on all the major perl platforms. > 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. We had some discussion about that last year. The gist is that Perl6 is still in the adoption phase so it is expected that PDL on perl5 will be useful for a while yet. If there is direct support for pdls in perl6, it should be possible to migrate to that at some point. Cheers, Chris > 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. >> .. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
