Looks great! I used perl a lot when I started programming and it is lovely to see it alive and kicking with scientific computing!
As a "heavy" user of scientific computing, I must say that the name "data language" is a bit disheartening... It echoes of useless "data frames" not of cool "sparse matrices" which is what I actually need. Does PDS support large sparse matrices? I grepped around the tutorial and the book and the word "sparse" is nowhere to be found. Yet it is an essential data structure in scientific computation. Are there any plans to, e.g., provide an interface into standard libraries like suitesparse?
I plan to improve that, but will need to figure out the design (perhaps with something from Eigen). There is <https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::CCS>, but it is not a real full PDL ndarray and is actually a wrapper around the PDL API.
As a "heavy" user of scientific computing, I must say that the name "data language" is a bit disheartening... It echoes of useless "data frames" not of cool "sparse matrices" which is what I actually need. Does PDS support large sparse matrices? I grepped around the tutorial and the book and the word "sparse" is nowhere to be found. Yet it is an essential data structure in scientific computation. Are there any plans to, e.g., provide an interface into standard libraries like suitesparse?