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IDL versus PVWAVE [message #11696]

Fri, 08 May 1998 00:00

dwwebb1
Messages: 1
Registered: May 1998

Junior Member

I have been writing IDL code for about 2 years now. There was some concern at
work that others in the company are using PVWAVE and that maybe PVWAVE has
advantages over IDL or is more used.

After trying to find info on the internet about PVWAVE, I have found that while
searching for PVWAVE, I get mostly IDL matches. I plan to investigate further
by speaking with someone I know who uses PVWAVE. But I would have to say that
it certainly doesn't seem to be as popular or used as IDL.

Any comments?

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Re: IDL versus PVWAVE [message #11778 is a reply to message #11696]

Wed, 13 May 1998 00:00

Martha Kusterer
Messages: 3
Registered: December 1997

Junior Member

Hi,
I used PVWAVE for about 2 years to do an interactive graphics display for a
processing system for displaying sonar data and 3 years ago I switched over to IDL
when I moved departments at work. My information about PVWAVE is old but I liked
programming with the widgets in IDL much better. They were less controlable at a
low level in IDL then in PVWAVE but were much easier to learn and use and the
documentation was much better. It seemed at the time that PVWAVE expected you to
master the X windows books and just didn't cover very much in their documentation
on the widgets at the time.

I found the rest of the code to be very similar.

I hope that this helps!

DWWEBB1 wrote:

> I have been writing IDL code for about 2 years now. There was some concern at
> work that others in the company are using PVWAVE and that maybe PVWAVE has
> advantages over IDL or is more used.
>
> After trying to find info on the internet about PVWAVE, I have found that while
> searching for PVWAVE, I get mostly IDL matches. I plan to investigate further
> by speaking with someone I know who uses PVWAVE. But I would have to say that
> it certainly doesn't seem to be as popular or used as IDL.
>
> Any comments?

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Re: idl versus pvwave [message #14850 is a reply to message #11696]

Tue, 06 April 1999 00:00

luthi
Messages: 20
Registered: March 1999

Junior Member

Interesting question I asked myself several times. From the discussion on this
list (and personal experience) it seems that PV-Wave development essentially
ceased, considering several bugs in the plotting routines that persist for 3
major versions. (You guessed it, I currently use PV-Wave). On the other hand
IDL seems to develop new functionality (object oriented..) which would be
quite interesting to use.

So my question goes in the same direction: is there a reason to use PV-Wave
instead of IDL besides the very comfortable way to use powerful mathematical
codes (namely the GT-Grid and IMSL numerical libraries)?

Hope someone who knows both systems can answer this... ;-)

Cheers

Martin

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