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Re: IDL vs Yorick? [message #32499 is a reply to message #32374]

Fri, 11 October 2002 08:11

David Fanning
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Craig Markwardt (craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu) writes:

> 2. Close-to-non-existent development. I can see that Munro is slowly
> developing a new version, 2.0, but this has happened over 4 or 5
> years. This is not to mean any discredit to Munro! Quite the
> opposite. His is fantastic design, but unfortunately it's only
> him as far as I can see.

Maybe he needs to license this to Visual Numerics. IDL
was pretty much in the same boat until Precision Visuals
(nee Visual Numerics) offered David Stern X millions of
dollars for the software rights. David had to spend the
money somehow, or pay enormous taxes, so he just went
ahead a built a competing company with it.

Dumb luck or a great business plan, I'll let you
decide. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: IDL vs Yorick? By: David Fanning on Fri, 11 October 2002 08:11
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