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Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? [message #37550 is a reply to message #37549]

Fri, 02 January 2004 11:11

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Bruce Bowler writes:

> Which works (even if entirely less than IOTTMCO {intuitivly obvious to the
> most casual observer}), but gets inordinately complex if the plot in
> question is part of a multiplot.
>
> I maintain (and always will, just because that's the way I am :-) that
> what IDL does now is "wrong". It, and it alone, knows how it is going to
> render what I ask it to render. It must be able to position the data so
> that all of what I ask it to render is rendered...

Well, I don't know. Microsoft tries to build programs that do
all the thinking for you and, well... don't get me started in
that direction. :-(

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I don't mind programs that still give
me a bit of control over things. Makes me feel useful. :-)

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		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 05 January 2004 07:52
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 12:36
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Ken Knapp on Fri, 02 January 2004 12:27
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:51
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:29
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:26
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:13
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:11
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:11
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:00
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 10:29

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