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Hi zentara

The core of PDL is written in the C programming language (see PDL::Internals). Fortran is only used in some libraries such as PGPLOT (used for plotting) and Slatec (used for manipulating matrices, calculate Fast Fourier Transforms, fit data using polynomials, interpolate data, etc.). About the piddles' data types, here is a table that will show you the data types already defined (in the file Basic/Core/Types.pm.PL):

PDL Type Real C Type ---------- -------------- byte unsigned char short short ushort unsigned short long long int longlong long long int float float double double

Note that you can add new types as explained in the PDL documentation. You might also want to read the documentation on PDL::PP to learn how to add your own routines.

In short, I believe the computational accuracy of PDL to be closer to that of C than to the computational accuracy of Fortran.

Cheers,

lin0

In reply to Re^2: RFC: Getting Started with PDL (the Perl Data Language) by lin0
in thread RFC: Getting Started with PDL (the Perl Data Language) by lin0

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