Randy Olson

• Website: www.randalolson.com
• About: Digital evolution researcher. I blog about Python for scientific computing.

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• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  I've never used Perl so I can't comment on Perl vs. Python, but you missed two critical libraries/tools that Python also brings to scientific computing: pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/): offers efficient R-like DataFrames with tons of built-in capability IPython Notebook (http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html): provides...

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• taiwai commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing

  I am not sure what (3) exactly mean. For (1) and (2), Perl can also be done with just few lines. For example, with Chart::Gnuplot, it would be like:

  
  my $chart = Chart::Gnuplot->new(
      output => "test.png",
      xlabel => "x-axis",    # annotation text
      xrange => [0, 10],     # axis range
  );
  
  # About data point array 1
  
  my $dataSet1 = Chart::Gnuplot::DataSet->new(
  
      points => \@data1,
  
      color  => "blue",      # line color chosen
  
  );
  
  # About data point array 2
  
  my $dataSet2 = Chart::Gnuplot::DataSet->new(
  
      points => \@data…