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Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? [message #101 is a reply to message #100]

Thu, 13 June 1991 11:06

jvb7u
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In article <BGLENDEN.91Jun11161231@colobus.cv.nrao.edu> bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:
#
#Which should we buy? Presumably PV-WAVE has more features, but are
#they worth more money? Since they can now diverge, which would you bet
#on long term?

Personally, I can't recommmend EITHER. They are both inferior to a good
object-oriented programming approach!

If you have to have the interactive capability (the ONLY advantage
these languages have), get Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW), which
is more powerful than either of the above and FREE from CERN.

In a nutshell, PAW was designed to be used for reducing experimental
data. Any type of data, but there is a package designed for High
Energy Physics. It has vastly superior memory management, graphics and
least squares capability to any interactive language I've ever
encountered. I guess it has to be, when a single "shot" of an
accelerator produces hundreds of megabytes of data! For more
information, send a request to cernlib@cernvm.cern.ch.

Jon
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		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: plonski on Thu, 20 June 1991 17:17
		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: paul on Thu, 20 June 1991 11:37
		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: rfinch on Tue, 18 June 1991 08:43
		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: gotwols on Mon, 17 June 1991 17:31
		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: landsman on Mon, 17 June 1991 08:25
		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: jvb7u on Thu, 13 June 1991 11:06
		Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? By: nvi on Thu, 13 June 1991 16:08

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