I would prefer a non-matlab solution as well.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Jan Hoogenraad <[email protected]>wrote: > Call it PDL for octave to make sure you don't run into those problems ? > > > Derek Lamb wrote: > > Are there license restrictions that would come into play? At one time I > had the thought to make a Inline::PDL::IDL module. But I didn't want to > make Perl/PDL an IDL interpreter, and potentially awaken the RSI legal > beast. But apparently the gnudatalanguage people have a drop-in > interpreter for IDL .pro files, so maybe writing a translator isn't such a > big deal. And maybe MathWorks doesn't care what you do with Matlab files. > > > > Derek > > > > On May 3, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > > > >> I'm often needing to collaborate or interoperate with Matlab > >> users. Eventually, I would like to see the ability to call PDL > >> routines from Matlab and vice-versa. In the near term, a > >> M-file import wizard might be more implementable. > >> > >> The idea is to import an M-file, parse and convert what > >> we can do correctly (in theory, we could compile to PDL > >> completely), and provide stubs for any missing or > >> untranslated functions. The hope would be to produce > >> a .pdl file version that will compile (if not run). > >> > >> Initial functionality: > >> - convert loop constructs > >> - identify variables and add $ to the names > >> - convert index limits > >> - generate function stubs to be filled in > >> - fix limits on dimensions > >> > >> Just having the first few items addressed would be a > >> big help in reducing the effort and possible errors in > >> .m <-> .pdl file conversions. It might make sense to > >> have an import plugin for Padre as well. > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> Chris > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > >
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