morning Chris,

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]>wrote:
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> - How long have you used PDL?
>
since v2.4.2 (March 2005?)


> - What PDL version do you use?
>
v2.4.3 (*old* box), v2.4.11, v2.006_90 (for PDL_Indx testing)


> - Best thing(s) about PDL
>
It's Perl, it's fast, and (to borrow a phrase from the camel book) it makes
the easy (numeric) stuff easy and the harder stuff possible.


> - Worst thing(s) about PDL
>
Use of lvalue subs makes many stock perl debuggers choke (at least on most
of my code); I believe this has been solved already, I'm just waiting for
it to reach the distributions.

- I would use PDL more (or at all) if only ...
>
(a) ... there was native PP/XS/C-level support for sparse matrices, and/or
(b) ... my research problems were more amenable to representation as
numeric data


> - Any suggestions for PDL development?
>
see above :-)

marmosets & thanks for all your work!
  Bryan

-- 
Bryan Jurish                           "There is *always* one more bug."
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