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Re: What IS PV-WAVE?? [message #3965] Thu, 13 April 1995 00:00
buurlm is currently offline  buurlm
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I think I've seen this in the/a FAQ somewhere. PV-WAVE bought the source
code from IDL some years back, and since then the two products have diverged
somewhat. PV-WAVE is not an "overlay" for IDL.

I don't know about IDL, but PV-WAVE has partnered with a number of
companies eg. IMSL and MAPLE, which may be what your colleague
referred to. Hard to say without knowing the functionality you are trying to
implement.

Lars Mikael Buur
(buurlm@pluto.dspt.com)

Anders M Jorgensen (anders@uss-enterprise.bu.edu) wrote:
: HI there,
: I have been using IDL for about 2 years now (and gotten quite good at
: it :-). A week ago I was at a meeting where writing data analysis software
: in IDL was discussed - subjects were to create general data analysis
: software using widgets as a graphical user interface.

: Someone in the meeting claimed that we were wasting our time, and that the
: software we wanted to write had already been written for IDL, and was
: called PV-WAVE. What he claimed was that PV-WAVE is an overlay for IDL that
: will do all this data analysis stuff.

: I have had the understanding that PV-WAVE is just a sister of IDL, and that
: they were - some years back - the same language, and PV-WAVE is today
: nothing other than another programming language. Can anyone enlighten me
: here? Am I right, or is he right?
: Thanks,
: ---anders

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