PDL Porters...
David that's a good point you have there, yet here is another, you know as I
know that the reason why
we all do this open-source programming is because, tha'ts the only why we can
get as much done
to be where we need to be, in biotechnology engineering & physics ect... ,
any way what Im getting at is why don't we start a PDL foundation... you need
at least 5 people
that are not related, and are will to go over communicate as a whole every
week, like Friday
or in other words you have to have a record of minutes, which means someone has
to keep a log
of every one that was at the meeting every week and of what they discussed
I have not even created one module yet I don't know how, I don't even know how
to
write a subroutine, all though I have many books I don't have time to read them
....
so I will work on trying to get those thing done so that I know how to do
that...
Listen tho, the field that where working in we need millions of engineers
working together
and if each and every one of us has to learn every thing all by them selves,
then were just wasting time
we need to make it easy to learn what we know and to help other learn it in a
simple way
and PDL is the simple way because it is visual learning, and a picture is worth
a thousand words then
a animation is worth a million ....
right know I have two physics book that cover every thing from classical
physics to
quantum mechanics, they give me equations and words, but what i need is
code and methods of writing that code, that is what we need, that is what I
want
and that is what other people want as well, not just to spend $ing hours every
day writing code
so we can see pretty pictures, No but code that we can use to test experiments
based on our simulations so that we can go back and make the software better
and to make the theory better and to make the experiments better ...
so are ther 5 people willing to spend 2 hours each week to start a mathematical
research foundation
with PDL as our source, that will allow us to integrate with millions of
programmers,
physicists, experimenters, collage students...
because you know as well as I do that if there is a way to live young longer
most amount of people
that have sex every day or week, will want to live longer, and I will be damed
if someone is trying
to keep that from with in my reach as far as my longevity goes and I think that
goes for most people as well..
-Mark
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From: David Mertens <[email protected]>
To: MARK BAKER <[email protected]>
Cc: chm <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Perldl] A think about PDL and Prima
Mark -
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, MARK BAKER <[email protected]> wrote:
I hope to get my "Spherical Harmonics Orbitals with PDL", Into a book
>
>so that people can work on the subatomic characteristics of atoms
>hopefully with a Module coming soon, I think the best way to learn
>
>PDL is to go threw known experiments and put them into simulation
>in PDL this is something I'm still working on...
>
I think your ideas are great, but I hark from the great state of Missouri,
known as the Show Me State. I don't think you'll get anyone volunteering to
help with your Spherical Harmonics work until you have something at least
partly working that is posted to github or CPAN. Show me a partial and working
implementation, show me sketch of how you hope to extend your module's API,
show me a skeleton of documentation, and show me a simple method for installing
and using your module. Until you've done that, I don't think you'll get much
help. It's a ton of work, but if you're not willing to put in the effort to get
the project that far, others just won't join in.
please contact me if you would like to become a part of this project
>
>this would be a revenue shearing project which means we can make
>
>money off the book, depending of the effort put in by each person
>
>
This is a book I wish I would have had working with PDL ...
>if you have some science experiments in PDL let me know
>
>you could make some money off this book with me ....
>as I hope to cover more then just atoms and there orbitals ...
I disagree strongly with the revenue-oriented approach you're taking here.
Would PDL be the awesome numerical package that it is
if Karl and company had focused on revenue? Would Perl be the awesome
programming
language that it is? Of course not. This is not the Way of Perl.
If we manage to get the PDL::Book into dead-tree format, if we sell it for
money, and if we actually make a profit (three nontrivial ifs right there),
then I believe that profit should go to the Perl Foundation or some other
non-profit that makes sense for PDL to give money to. Anything else would
introduce a major paperwork and tax headache that almost certainly would not be
worth the extra effort, and it's against the spirit of the community.
Just my two cents.
David
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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