I’m definitely FOR a new publication outlining the various bits of awesomeness 
that have come in under Chris’s direction.  Perhaps we could collect a 
half-dozen to a dozen science highlights as was done for the web page way back 
when we had the big flag day.



> On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:14 AM, Christian Soeller <c.soel...@auckland.ac.nz> 
> wrote:
> 
> Wow, I had not realised, time flies when you have fun. It would be nice to 
> come up with some way to mark this although I am uncertain how close we would 
> be to a final V2 (as it assumes a V3 being close). But then I have not 
> participated in recent development.
> 
> Is another publication a possibility?
> 
> Christian
> 
>> On 8/06/2016, at 12:42 am, Karl Glazebrook <karlglazebr...@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The thought occurred to me that we are approaching the 20-year anniversary 
>> of PDL this coming October 23rd!
>> 
>> It is amazing to me that it is now this old, doesn’t seem like 20 years has 
>> gone by. Makes me feel really old.
>> 
>> Here is the original announcement for the nostalgic:
>> 
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.perl.misc/glazebrook$20pdl/comp.lang.perl.misc/MJ8TL5pDaUk/LKWfyhHNCooJ
>> 
>> Do we want to mark this in anyway? Maybe release a ‘final' version of PDL 2? 
>> (which should be v.2.71828182845905 following Knuth...)
>> 
>> Karl
>> 
>> p.s. First stupid code was written in Feb of 1996 - this is described in the 
>> PDL book.
>> 
>> ————
>> 
>> Subject: ANNOUNCE: perlDL v1.00 - the 'perl Data Language’  10/23/96
>> 
>> `perlDL' ("perl Data Language") gives standard perl the ability
>>   to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-
>>   dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of
>>   scientific computing.
>> 
>>   The idea is to turn perl in to a, free, array-oriented,
>>   numerical language in the same sense as commerical packages like
>>   IDL and MatLab. One can write simple perl expressions to
>>   manipulate entire numerical arrays all at once.
>> 
>>   For example with `perlDL' the perl variable `$a' can hold a
>>   1024x1024 floating point image, it only takes 4Mb of memory to
>>   store it and expressions like `$a=sqrt($a)+2' would manipulate
>>   the whole image in a few seconds.
>> 
>>   A simple interactive shell ("`perldl'") is provided for command
>>   line use together with a module ("`PDL'") for use in perl
>>   scripts.
>> 
>>   v1.00 is the first official alpha release. It provides the
>>   fundumental numerical processing facilities and a limited set of
>>   standard functions. Graphics are supported via the perl PGPLOT
>>   module and image display via the external programs
>>   saoimage/ximtool. The goal is to allow perlDL to interact with a
>>   variety of external graphics systems. I/O is currently supported
>>   via the FITS standard, though given the simple design it ought
>>   to be possible to create perl code to read many common formats.
>> 
>>   There are of course many things missing from this first release
>>   but it is hoped that perlDL will grow through efforts of
>>   interested users. It has a modular design to encourage this.
>> 
>> Where to obtain perlDL:
>> 
>> Home Site:
>> 
>>   WWW: http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/
>> 
>>   ftp: ftp://ftp.aao.gov.au/pub/perldl/
>> 
>> Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN):
>> 
>>   ftp: In directory modules/by-module/PDL/
>> 
>>   WWW: You can automatically select your LOCAL CPAN site by going
>>   to: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/PDL/
>> 
>>   The PGPLOT module is available from (among others):
>> 
>>   http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~kgb/pgperl.html (Home Page/General
>>   information)
>> 
>>   http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/PGPLOT/
>> 
>>   ftp://ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk/pub/kgb/pgperl/
>> 
>>   ftp://ftp.aao.gov.au/pub/pgperl/
>> 
>>   SAOimage is available from:
>> 
>>   http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html
>> 
>> Documentation
>> 
>>   The current perlDL documentation is available from
>>   http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/PDL.html
>> 
>> Mailing List
>> 
>>   Finally, a mailing list has been set up to talk about perlDL and
>>   for developers to coordinate their work.
>> 
>>   The address of the list is per...@jach.hawaii.edu. To subscribe,
>>   send a message to perldl-...@jach.hawaii.edu containing a
>>   string in the following format:
>> 
>>   subscribe me@my.email.address
>> 
>>   I hope you find perlDL useful and enjoyable,
>> 
>>   Karl Glazebrook. email: k...@aaoepp.aao.gov.au
> 
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