Re^2: Perl GPGPU Modules

[kcott]

G'day eyepopslikeamosquito,

Although I've never installed or used it, I was aware of PDL's existence, and vaguely knew it could be used for matrix arithmetic, among other things; I didn't know about the machine learning aspect. It's a prerequisite for AI::MXNet (see my last post) so I've just installed it, probably only minutes before you posted.

OpenGL is an optional prerequisite for PDL; which I just failed to install. It looks like I need to install some libraries for that, so that's on my ever growing TODO list.

Thanks for the links to the other articles. A bit dated but still informative: I'll definitely have to look more closely at OpenGL. The last line of the last article made me laugh; I wondered if, 14 years later, poor old brian is still waiting. :-)

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

> I wondered if, 14 years later, poor old brian is still waiting. :-)

Yes, I too have enormous respect for brian d foy, a bona fide Perl pioneer hero, a fantastic and consistent contributor to Perl for over twenty years, using Perl since Physics grad school, and founding Perl Mongers in New York way back in 1998. Unlike most of Perl's early pioneers from the 1990s, brian is still going strong today. A true believer.

BTW, though I know what the "L" stands for in Randal L Schwartz, I don't know what the "d" stands for in brian d foy, nor why the name is always rendered in lower case.

[kcott]

Just to be absolutely clear, in case my comment was taken the wrong way by anyone, this was in no way meant as a slur on brian d foy. On re-reading, I can see that could be a possible misinterpretation. If the article had been written by Any Author, I would have written "... 14 years later, poor old Any is still waiting ...".

I think, back in the mid to late 2000s, many of us believed that Perl6 would simply supplant Perl5 — in much the same way as Perl5 supplanted Perl4 — and by now we would maybe be talking about v6.22.0 instead of v5.34.0 (the 22 is completely arbitrary; although, it does perhaps roughly fit with v5.10.0 release in 2007).

There was also nothing intentionally negative about Perl6/Raku. I never engaged in the flame wars we saw not so long ago and have no wish to re-ignite them now.