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davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote: > You know, even with as much free code as there is out there, > I find that not too many people use it. I don't really know > why. Ah, my pet peeve. I have two problems with much of the free code out there. 1) Portability I can't count the number of times I have tried to use free code, but it won't work because the programmer put in some platform-specific operations. At that point it is usually easier to write my own code than try to hack the free stuff. The main reason I switched over to IDL was for platform- independent development. Otherwise I would have stayed with FORTRAN-90. 2) Flexibility Too often the free code will only work with: a specific data format, or a specific data size, or a specific data type, or ... Even some procedures supplied in the IDL library fail in this area. That is why I rarely use "free" code. Ed Meinel -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum