Perl Data Language: Scientific Computing with Perl
I can see in the page that last PDL release was on February, okay. Probably the presence of activity indicates that there are people using PDL, and more than that, maintaining it. Since PDL existed for many years, I would speculate that these people presumably didn&#x27;t jump into PDL yesterday. There can very well be large codebases using it for a long time.<p>All the comments suggesting that this somehow shouldn&#x27;t be and that people should move away from PDL, are depressing in the way that, in a split second, years of effort and thousands lines of code that are probably doing good work are dismissed just like that.<p>If a bank is still using Cobol, it is interesting and a testament to how a Cobol programmer can still make a good living on it. But if a scientist is using Perl to carry out calculations, this is somehow bad?