If you want to stick to perl, you might want to check out http://pdl.perl.org/ http://pdl.perl.org/ if you haven't already. You can do a fair amount of scientif

If you want to stick to perl, you might want to check out http://pdl.perl.org/ http://pdl.perl.org/ if you haven't already. You can do a fair amount of scientific computing with it. Among other things it overloads the basic operators, so $a+$b will do the right thing, even if $a and %b are matrices/images, so it is very easy to "read" if you are a perl person already.