Perl Data Language Advent Calendar

Perl Data Language Advent Calendar(pdl.perl.org)

2 points by Enk1du 1 year ago | 6 comments

Enk1du 1 year ago |

What could be described as Numpy for Perl, PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest. The Advent Calendar showcases some of its features in a festive mood.

smartmic 1 year ago | |

> PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest

Where do you see that happening? I would like to see such thing, but my own experience and the general feeling is that this is not within reach.

Enk1du 1 year ago | | |

For me, it's the acceleration of development in the last 5 years as seen in the Changes file. It's now releasing new versions almost every month.

https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Changes

Qem 1 year ago | |

Is it ported to Raku already?

Enk1du 1 year ago | | |

Nothing stopping anyone from using Inline::Perl or NativeCall [0]. I'd like to see Raku's concurrency model working on these data structures. Otherwise there's always PDL::ParallelCPU [1]

[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU

anthk 1 year ago |

For these kind of cases, guix looks like the best platform to set PDL under either an ad-hoc environment or a container, and much lighter and secure than Docker itself.