Perl and Scientific Programming: A panel discussion

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Perl and Scientific Programming A Panel Discussion https://perl4science.github.io/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-quantified-onion

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The Panel ● Jay Hannah - Lapsed BioPerl abuser. Lord of Fire, Emeritus ● Walter Mankowski - Postdoctoral researcher, Bioimage Lab, Drexel University ● Dana Jacobsen - Senior Software Engineer at Rentrak

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● In what way have you used Perl for Scientific programming?

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● Is Perl just a glue language or can it be a primary language in science?

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● PDL is the canonical science module, along with BioPerl. Are there any others that you recommend or know of?

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● I think the killer app for python isn't Numpy/Scipy so much as matplotlib. It steals Matlab's plotting capabilities. Does Perl have something similar? If not, why not?

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● Speaking of Python, Python(x,y) does a good job of collecting almost everything you might need to do scientific programming on Windows, in a very Matlab way. Is Matlab the application that we (Perl and Python or anything else) need to compare/compete against?

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● Parallel computing is becoming more and more important. You can get a 192 GPUs with Nvidia's Jetson system (for $200). Have you used any parallel computing with Perl? ● What options do you know of and use or recommend?

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● What about library bindings, like GSL?