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Re: page orientation [message #21132] Fri, 11 August 2000 00:00 Go to previous message
davidf is currently offline  davidf
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Registered: September 1996
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Martin Schultz (martin.schultz@dkrz.de) writes:

> I would vote for a development environment that is upside down, too.
> Since IDL is by far the most important application running on any
> computer in the world, it should be ok then to turn the monitor upside
> down. I am sure other software companies will soon follow so you will
> never have to turn your monitor again. And then, finally, hardware
> builders will catch up and deliver the monitors in upside down mode with
> the stand on top.

Now this is the kind of "outside-the-box" thinking
that distinguishes world-class IDL programmers!

Well done, Martin! :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. I've passed your suggestion along to the folks
in Redmond, who I hear are thinking of acting on it
immediately.

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