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It is possible to do so, but it stands out in a way such that most people aren't doing it using direct language features unless necessary. If you have `strict` and `warnings` enabl…

PDL also has support for many of those distributions beyond the common ones. All the GSL ones in fact. Except Wishart didn't get a binding because that was just added to GSL in 201…

> For instance, there’s no official Jupyter notebook support for Perl Not sure how official support would work in the Jupyter Project since anybody can write a kernel. I wrote the …

I would really like to do some scientific computing in Raku. It has crossed my mind that I can maintain both Perl5 and Raku ports of some of the library code I'm writing. I just ha…

Yep, there's more than one way to do things and PDL wraps all the same GSL functions https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::GSL::RNG#ran_gumbel1 >. Also note that PDL does automatic broadca…

Good ideas! a) A built-in way would be good. There is some work being explored in using OpenMP with Perl/PDL to get some of that. In the mean time, there is MCE which does distribu…

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 ndar…

Here is a link to the PDL book http://pdl.perl.org/content/pdl-book-toc.html >. I can share some examples of using PDL: - Demos of basic usage https://metacpan.org/release/ETJ/PDL-…

Hi, PDL core dev here. Feel free to ask me anything about it. The last release wasn't in February, it was just last week! https://metacpan.org/release/ETJ/PDL-2.050 >. I agree with…

Yeah, I think it was. The only thing older was probably CTAN, but it didn't have the same structure. Other things from the Perl ecosystem that should be copied are: - CPAN Testers …

Perl's CPAN has tooling for diffing versions through the use of MetaCPAN (a top-notch site which every language should try to emulate). For example, here is a diff of the URI distr…

You never know when that pull request could turn into co-maintainer permissions. ;-) That happened to me with 3 packages last month!