Christian and I met up in London for a beer, and were joined virtually by
Tuomas.
Cheers!
- Karl
On 8 Jun. 2016, 12:42 AM +0100, 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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