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Re: CORBA and IDL [message #2723] Mon, 29 August 1994 10:40 Go to next message
thompson is currently offline  thompson
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lucio@ifctr.mi.cnr.it (Lucio Chiappetti) writes:

> For me IDL means Interactive Data Language (a data visualization
> and analysis package from RSI Inc., exists since about 10 years)

> There are two newsgroups :

> 1 comp.lang.idl
> 2 comp.lang.idl.pvwave

...

> I am sort of discovering that there is "another IDL". Obviously
> I'm not alone in my confusion, since what happens now is :

> 1 discusses both RSI Inc. IDL and "the other IDL" (percentage
> varying time-to-time, but usually >60% for RSI IDL
> 2 discusses mainly PV-Wave, or PV-Wave vs IDL

> Could somebody arrange to clear out things to have properly
> subdivided and clearly identifiable groups ?

The correct division is

comp.lang.idl "the other IDL"
comp.lang.idl-pvwave Both RSI's IDL and PV-Wave

See the FAQ which is regularly posted in comp.lang.idl-pvwave for a discussion
of this.

Bill Thompson
Re: CORBA and IDL [message #2724 is a reply to message #2723] Mon, 29 August 1994 11:22 Go to previous message
Geoff.Sobering is currently offline  Geoff.Sobering
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In article <9408291548.AA02660@poseidon.ifctr.mi.cnr.it>,
lucio@ifctr.mi.cnr.it (Lucio Chiappetti) wrote:

> In article <33n2vk$1gm@santix.santix.de>, ingo@santix.de (Ingo J. Averdunk) write:
> |>
> |> Could we all agree on posting CORBA- and IDL-related articles to the
> |> newsgroup comp.lang.idl. I think that's what the group is for.
>
> I do not know nothing about CORBA...

Me neither. Can someone explain what it is?

> For me IDL means Interactive Data Language (a data visualization
> and analysis package from RSI Inc., exists since about 10 years)

It also means: "Interface Definition Language", used in creating GUI user
interfaces.

> There are two newsgroups :
>
> 1 comp.lang.idl
> 2 comp.lang.idl.pvwave
>
> So what I assumed was that :
>
> 1 was dealing with IDL (RSI Inc. IDL)
> 2 was dealing only with PV-Wave specific things
> ...

I was under the impression (from the 'comp.lang.idl-pvwave' FAQ, item G09 -
among others) that:

1 Interface Definition Language discussion
2 Interactive Data language & PV-Wave discussion

Am I missing good stuff on the "wrong" newsgroup? Should I also subscribe
to 'comp.lang.idl'?

--
Geoff Sobering (Geoff.Sobering@nih.gov)
In Vivo NMR Research Center
National Institutes of Health
Re: CORBA and IDL [message #2727 is a reply to message #2723] Mon, 29 August 1994 08:42 Go to previous message
lucio is currently offline  lucio
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Registered: December 1993
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In article <33n2vk$1gm@santix.santix.de>, ingo@santix.de (Ingo J. Averdunk) write:
|>
|> Could we all agree on posting CORBA- and IDL-related articles to the
|> newsgroup comp.lang.idl. I think that's what the group is for.
|>

I do not know nothing about CORBA but perhaps this is the right
moment for somebody knowledgreable with Usenet policy to clear
up a mess about this newsgroup :

For me IDL means Interactive Data Language (a data visualization
and analysis package from RSI Inc., exists since about 10 years)

There are two newsgroups :

1 comp.lang.idl
2 comp.lang.idl.pvwave

PV-Wave is a clone of IDL which came out later by a different
vendor.

So what I assumed was that :

1 was dealing with IDL (RSI Inc. IDL) (my itnerest)
2 was dealing only with PV-Wave specific things (no interest)

I am sort of discovering that there is "another IDL". Obviously
I'm not alone in my confusion, since what happens now is :

1 discusses both RSI Inc. IDL and "the other IDL" (percentage
varying time-to-time, but usually >60% for RSI IDL
2 discusses mainly PV-Wave, or PV-Wave vs IDL

Could somebody arrange to clear out things to have properly
subdivided and clearly identifiable groups ?


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