Reflections after going through all PDL-featuring nodes on PerlMonks

As a few will have seen (I assume they look at "Newest Nodes" - and kindly upvoted some of my replies, for which many thanks), I've been posting replies to some old nodes on here. This was after deciding a couple of months ago that after looking at the front page each day and voting on various posts and replies, I'd then go back over all the nodes featuring the text "PDL" and vote on (to use the rest of that day's votes) / reply to ones where that seemed useful. I kept track of where I was up to by looking at "Nodes (I) Wrote" and seeing the date of the original thread I was replying to on my most-recent post.

Some of the things I have learned:

of a few non-reported bugs in PDL that are now fixed
of a few former keen PDL users who now apparently don't visit PerlMonks anymore
back in 2001, there was a thing called "Program Design Language" which gave some false positives on my searching
protein sequences using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_primary_structure coding gave some false positives when folks using Perl for biology stuff included some data with the string "PDL"
Despite PDL being around since 1997 in various forms, it only started getting discussed on here in mid-to-late 2000 or so

It's been really interesting to take this journey back through time, and see how Perl, and the PerlMonks site, and PDL have developed over time.

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Re: Reflections after going through all PDL-featuring nodes on PerlMonks by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jul 09, 2022 at 11:35 UTC
Thanks for this write-up! You see, for cheap thrills, I started listing necropost replies at Necroposting Considered Beneficial as I noticed them ... which worked nicely for a while ... until I gave up simply because I didn't have the energy to keep up with your many and varied necropost exploits. :) I've now added your write-up as a reference at Necroposting Considered Beneficial in the new "PDL necroposts by etj" section at the end.	[reply]
Re^2: Reflections after going through all PDL-featuring nodes on PerlMonks by etj (Priest) on Jul 09, 2022 at 15:40 UTC
I in turn was somewhat encouraged to continue and be thorough in my quest by your posting!	[reply]
Re: Reflections after going through all PDL-featuring nodes on PerlMonks by hippo (Archbishop) on Jul 09, 2022 at 10:41 UTC
Despite PDL being around since 1997 in various forms, it only started getting discussed on here in mid-to-late 2000 or so The Monastery only opened just before the turn of the millennium. See The early history of Perlmonks for some background. 🦛	[reply]
Re^2: Reflections after going through all PDL-featuring nodes on PerlMonks by etj (Priest) on Jul 09, 2022 at 15:39 UTC
I was somewhat aware of when PM started. But it was interesting to see that lead time nonetheless.	[reply]
Re: Reflections after going through all PDL-featuring nodes on PerlMonks by marioroy (Prior) on Jul 09, 2022 at 19:51 UTC
Thank you for addressing the performance issues in PDL.	[reply]