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NAME
       PDL::Tutorials - A guide to PDL's tutorial documentation.

MIGRATION
       These are our migration guides for users familiar with other types of
       numerical analysis software.

       PDL::MATLAB
            Migration guide for MATLAB users. This page explains the key
            differences between MATLAB and PDL from the point of view of a
            MATLAB user.

       PDL::Scilab
            Migration guide for Scilab users. This page explains the key
            differences between Scilab and PDL from the point of view of a
            Scilab user.

FOUNDATION
       PDL::Philosophy
            Why did we write PDL? This document explains some of the history
            and motivation behind the Perl Data Language. It is an attempt to
            answer the question "Why PDL?".

       PDL::QuickStart
            Quick introduction to PDL features. A hands-on guide suitable for
            complete beginners. This page assumes no previous knowledge of
            Perl or PDL.

       PDL::Indexing
            After you have read the QuickStart guide, you should follow up
            with this document. This guide goes more deeply into the concepts
            of "indexing" and "slicing" and how they form the core of
            numerical analysis with PDL.

INTERMEDIATE
       PDL::Threading
            Threading is one of PDL's most powerful features. If you know
            MATLAB, you've heard of "vectorizing". Well, threading is like
            "vectorizing on steroids". It lets you make very fast and compact
            code by avoiding nested loops. All vector-based languages do this,
            but PDL generalizes the technique to all sorts of applications.

            This tutorial introduces PDL's threading feature, and it shows an
            example implementing Conway's Game of Life in 10 lines and 80
            times faster than a classical implementation.

       PDL::BadValues
            Sometimes it is useful to specify that a certain value is "bad" or
            "missing". Scientific instruments some times include portions of
            invalid data. For example, a CCD camera might produce an image
            with over-exposed pixels. PDL's "bad values" feature gives you an
            easy way to deal with this sort of imperfect data.

       PDL::Tips
            Tips and suggestions for using PDL. This page is an assorted
            collection of programming tidbits that some PDL users have found
            useful. Some of these tips might be of help when you write your
            programs.

ADVANCED
       PDL::PP
            PDL's Pre-Processor is one of PDL's most powerful features. You
            write a function definition in special markup and the preprocessor
            generates real C code which can be compiled. With PDL:PP you get
            the full speed of native C code without having to deal with the
            full complexity of the C language.

       PDL::API
            A simple cookbook explaining how to create piddle manually, either
            from Perl or from C/XS code. This page covers the PDL core
            routines that comprise the PDL API. If you need to access piddles
            from C/XS, this is the document for you.

       PDL::Internals
            Description of the inner workings of the PDL module. Very few
            people need to see this. This page is mainly for PDL developers,
            or people interested in debugging PDL or changing the internals of
            PDL. If you can read this document and understand all of it, and
            you additionally understand PDL::PP, you will be awarded the title
            of "PDL Guru".

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2010 Daniel Carrera (dcarrera@gmail.com). You can distribute
       and/or modify this document under the same terms as the current Perl
       license.

       See: http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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