Please make a *new* thread if you change the subject. As is, you've disrupted what was a pretty useful discussion and consolidation of points related to PDL as a distribution.
--Chris On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
