PDL stands for Perl Data Language. To say it with the words of Karl Glazebrook, initiator of the PDL project:

The PDL concept is to give standard perl5 the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. e.g. $a=$b+$c can add two 2048x2048 images in only a fraction of a second.

It is hoped to eventually provide tons of useful functionality for scientific and numeric analysis.

For readers familiar with other scientific data evaluation packages it may be helpful to add that PDL is in many respects similar to IDL, MATLAB and similar packages. However, it tries to improve on a number of issues which were perceived (by the authors of PDL) as shortcomings of those existing packages.

Requer:

ld-linux.so.2 (glibc), libGL.so.1 (Mesa), libGLU.so.1 (Mesa), libICE.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libSM.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libX11.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXext.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXi.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXmu.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXt.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libc.so.6 (glibc), libfftw.so.2 (fftw), libgsl.so.0 (gsl), libm.so.6 (glibc), libncurses.so.5 (ncurses), libpthread.so.0 (glibc), librfftw.so.2 (fftw), libvga.so.1 (svgalib), /usr/bin/perl (perl), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) (glibc), libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc), libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) (glibc)