David Mertens showed a nice demo of something like this he built using Prima. In particular he had an impressive youtube video demoiing it
David can you post the link? Karl On 19/12/2012, at 6:49 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: > I would like to see a more integrated PDL > user environment. The pieces are there but > putting them together, standardizing things, > and making it robust and easy-to-install > take time. A general approach I've been > working towards: > > - interactive shell/command line interface > (have perldl and pdl2, need to clean up and > make available in a GUI framework) > > - standard graphics output > (the idea here would be to generate display > graphics via an OpenGL framework so that > it would be easy to combine various image > generation options into a common view) > > - opengl drivers for PGPLOT, PLplot, gnuplot, > Prima,... > > --Chris > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:31 AM, John Lapeyre > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'll not address docstrings vs. pod at all. Users, especially, those >> who are not nuts about programming, really like a notebook to work and >> to document their workflow (not code they want to distribute). My >> best guess for why there is a python notebook and no PDL notebook is >> that computational python has an enormous userbase and lots of money >> and PDL has a relatively small userbase and no money (which pushes the >> question back to a larger one.) I think POD is great, but that it's a >> red herring here. >> >> I also guess, based on some interactions, is that something like 90% >> percent of the people who might use these tools >> (PDL/python/mathematica/matlab,...) will not even consider it unless >> there is a notebook. I almost always prefer to work with command line >> tools within an emacs shell buffer because it offers uniformity, and >> because I am one of the rare users of high-level scientific software >> who is also a programmer-type. A pdl commint mode would be great-- I >> don't think it exists, but I doubt I could get the Sloan foundation to >> give me a million dollars to write one. Even so, sometime I might like >> something that can include latex quality math and images in a demo, >> especially if I want to reach a wide audience. >> >> Also, by giving the masses what they want, you also increase the >> general level of development and will get more complete coverage of >> the things you do care about. Otherwise, you have something that can >> only appeal to programmers, and eventually not even them, because >> of the more complete coverage in the popular tool. >> >> -John > > _______________________________________________ > 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
