On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:11 AM, David Mertens wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> > >> .. > >> > >> My greatest obstacle to using PDL right now is wrapping my head around > its > >> idiosyncrasies (I have to stop thinking like perl data structures and > start > >> thinking piddles), and especially being able to write my own PP code (or > >> whatever the correct term is). > >> > > .. > > Puneet - > > > > I wrote an introduction to PDL::PP for the Book. I would love to have > some > > feedback if you have time to give it a read. > > > > The pod is here: > > > http://pdl.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=pdl/pdl-book;a=blob_plain;f=PDL/Book/PP.pod;hb=HEAD > . > > I use some internal code listings for testing purposes so I recommend > > copying the text and putting it through perldoc rather than reading the > pod > > directly. > > > > > This is really tremendous, and deserves more prominent, front-page > billing. In fact, it would be nice if this were available as a nicely > formatted html page, Yes, that is the purpose of the book, of which this is only one chapter. We hope to distribute HTML and PDF copies, I believe, though precisely what we create and where/how its distributed is still up in the air. Much credit should go to Matt for spearheading the effort, and Chris for prodding Matt. I never would have written this if I didn't have a good outlet for it. > but better yet, as a tutorial in a(n ideally browser-based... Joel, any > news back from Miyagawa on implementing a browser-based PDL shell on > dotcloud?) PDL shell. > Eh, Inline::Pdlpp doesn't work very well in the PDL shell unless you're careful with it, and since it ultimately compiles C code, it's bound to be insecure. But I see your point. Having an online don't-even-need-to-install option to learn PDL::PP would be very nice. > Am still going through it, but am already learning a lot. Augmenting it > with more examples of code would be great as well. > More examples? I tried hard to reach a balance between examples and prose. If you think more examples would be helpful, perhaps we can work on a cookbook chapter for PP. > Thanks David. Great contribution, once again you score. > Thank you very much. :-) > -- > Puneet Kishor > David -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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