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Re: IDL or PV~Wave? [message #1025 is a reply to message #1023]

Tue, 25 May 1993 04:35

zawodny
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Registered: August 1992

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In article <1tqqbm$qm@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> alan@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) writes:
> (stuff deleted)
> In addition to their regular widgets. And I find the Wave widgets easier to
> use. Wave doesn't crash on me, locking up my workstation. Perhaps the
> stuff you've cited is critical to other people, but for me Wave offers the
> right combination of reliability and flexibility (and polish) that I need.

Well that is quite a set of accusations. In my 12+ years of IDL programming I
can never recall IDL crashing the system or "locking up my workstation". I did
see an alpha release of IDL for the PC bomb once but, my IDL for Windows has
performed flawlessly.

On the subject of widgets and GUI's, I have found that the IDL widgets are
actually quite easy to use. I went from never having seen a widget proceedure
to having a working (and useful) widget based program of intermediate
complexity in one day (8 hours). I can't think of anything easier unless
someone were to write it for me.

I think a major point of consideration when selecting a software package is the
track record of the company your dealing with. While I can say nothing to the
pro or con with respect to Visual Numerics (formerly PVI), I have found the
folks at RSI very helpful and competent. Very frequently, I find things that I
have suggested as a potential improvement to IDL appearing in a latter release.

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Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center
Internet: zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681-0001
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		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: pendleton on Tue, 25 May 1993 09:09
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: zawodny on Tue, 25 May 1993 04:35
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: thompson on Mon, 24 May 1993 14:41
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: alan on Mon, 24 May 1993 08:41
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: landers on Fri, 21 May 1993 13:12
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: knight on Fri, 21 May 1993 09:44

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