Encouraged by Enkidu I decided to write a little about my unsuccessful trial to run PDL Book example on Windows. It all started in December 2019 as I decided to learn Perl and looked for a way to create SVM (Support Vector Machine) model with it as I am able to do similar tasks in R or Python. As a side effect and to my surprise I have found that there exists such a thing as Perl Data Language (PDL) that has many modules suited for data science.

Intrigued by PDL I have installed Strawberry Perl 5.…