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Re: Widgets [message #17419 is a reply to message #2717]

Sun, 10 October 1999 00:00

Richard G. French
Messages: 65
Registered: June 1997

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David Fanning wrote:
>

> I think Dick is confusing IDL with the Interface Definition Language.
> I can't imagine it would ever take "months" to write a program
> in the IDL language usually referred to in this newsgroup. :-)
>
Thanks, David - just what I need is another project on my plate! That
old program was written using the 'curses' library in C - well-named, by
the way - and all of the plotting was done in tektronix mode. Oh, if
only there had been a mouse in those days! It took forever to write, but
we tested the devil out of it, and I can't stand the thought of going
through all that work again. SO much of the effort went into things we
don't care about now:
- limited memory (had to be done using overlays in 64 Kbyte chunks)
- limited disk space (had to run on total of 5 Mbytes)
- slow execution time
The result is that to handle all of those things, the computations had
to be
done in pieces and in a non-intuitive order. Going back to the drawing
board
and rewriting things would mean a complete overhaul, not just
translation of
loops into simple IDL statements. I'd be better off dropping the
workstation
off of a tall building and starting from scratch. If I break my leg and
am in
a body cast for six months, maybe I will do that!

Dick

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		Re: Widgets By: davidf on Sun, 03 October 1999 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 01 October 1999 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: Richard G. French on Thu, 07 October 1999 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: mgs on Wed, 06 October 1999 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: Robert LeeJoice on Wed, 06 October 1999 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: Richard G. French on Sun, 10 October 1999 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: davidf on Sat, 09 October 1999 00:00
		Re: widgets By: davidf on Fri, 18 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Widgets By: Rick Towler on Thu, 30 May 2002 08:11
		Re: Widgets By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 May 2002 11:24
		Re: widgets By: David Fanning on Fri, 19 August 2005 08:02

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