One thing that would help make PDL more approachable to users of other scientific toolkits would be to allow PDL to call and be called from the different environments.
* This would make it easy for new users to get started with PDL within the framework of their existing tool. * It would allow PDL to use libraries and/or utilities from those toolkits (e.g., matplotlib from python/numpy to provide matlab-look-alike graphics). * It would allow PDL users/developers to work in their preferred environment while still making the code available to users of the other tools. There already exists a pyperl library that is not active but could be reinvigorated and have NumPY<->PDL object conversion support added to meet these goals. A similar utility could be done for matlab. At the least we could implement a PDL server that could be called from the matlab IDE with similar data type conversions to piddles. Other thoughts? Chris _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
