Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
It's an IDL-themed entertainment playground similar to "jurassic park", featuring obscure array reforms and obsolete function calls. Let's hope histogram won't escape from its cage.... Cheers, Paolo David Fanning wrote: > Folks, > > I've just gotten home and I am in the process of updating to > IDL 7.0.3. I see there is something there called the IDL Adventure. > I can find no information on this on the ITTVIS web page. > Does anyone have any idea what this is? > > Cheers, > > David > > P.S. Let's just say I've *always* thought of IDL as an > adventure, if you know what I mean. :-) > > -- > David Fanning, Ph.D. > Fanning Software Consulting, Inc. > Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/ > Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
On Jul 7, 9:38 am, pgri...@gmail.com wrote: > It's an IDL-themed entertainment playground similar to "jurassic > park", > featuring obscure array reforms and obsolete function calls. Let's > hope > histogram won't escape from its cage.... I was hoping it was an IDL-based port of adventure, as in "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" and "xyzzy"- that would be a sure way to get me to upgrade! Mike
pgrigis@gmail.com writes: > It's an IDL-themed entertainment playground similar to "jurassic > park", > featuring obscure array reforms and obsolete function calls. And it grows organically, beyond the control of ordinary mankind! :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- Craig B. Markwardt, Ph.D. EMAIL: craigmnet@REMOVEcow.physics.wisc.edu Astrophysics, IDL, Finance, Derivatives | Remove "net" for better response ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------