adding to teh list symbolic math. gui building tool , with object oriented callback enabled gui graphic engine. integrated debugging engine . database connectivity perl interpreter :-) numerical solutions for ordinary and partial differential equations. and even a web browser
besides, last i checked it was ~5000$ 2009/6/1 Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>: > On Monday 01 June 2009 09:02:29 Gabor Szabo wrote: >> Back a few months ago we had a discussion that brought up Matlab: >> http://mail.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2009-March/010213.html >> >> It is not the first time Matlab is mentioned here and we also had >> mentions of PDL. >> http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDL/ >> >> I wonder if someone with background in either or both of those tools could >> give me ideas in comparing the two ? >> > > I worked with Matlab for my Technion homework. As a language, from the > programming language design aspect, it is pretty limited, and also has a very > limited debugger (without even conditional breakpoints). But I was impressed > from the power that its bulk-tensor operations give to an engineer. Many > students did not take the time to learn it properly, and just used loops all > over the place, but I took the time to learn the true Matlab way. > > I worked with PDL a little and also wrote an extension for it. It seems > impressive and usable, but like Roey said, its scope is much smaller than > Matlab's. If you just need bulk operations on numeric tensors, then it would > still be usable, naturally. > > Because PDL is based on Perl 5, the core language is much better and much more > usable than Matlab. > > If you're looking for a free Matlab-compatible (but still incomplete) > replacement look at GNU Octave. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > >> If Matlab need help from Perl then why not just use PDL for the whole >> thing? >> >> >> Gabor >> _______________________________________________ >> Perl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Best Introductory Programming Language - http://xrl.us/bjn84 > > God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we > read. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- -- vish _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
