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Re: Reading HDF5 Variable [message #42501 is a reply to message #42499]

Mon, 14 February 2005 13:19

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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> At the risk of starting a flame war, the netCDF interface (about 25
> functions) seems to have been written by scientists for scientists,
> while the HDF interface appears to have been written by programmers for
> programmers (hundreds(?) of functions).

The various problems with HDF are what led me to use netCDF. Not only
are they written "by scientists for scientists" but much of the
underpinnings of the format appear to have been written by "computer
scientists rather than scientists." Issues with the format aside, I
just like the fact that there are *stable, working* netCDF access
routines in IDL, Java, C, Perl, Python, etc. In fact, whenever I have
to work with HDF, the first thing I usually do is write a small
conversion program that converts the file to netCDF and then I work with
it from there. :-)

-Mike

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		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:35
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:19
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:13
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: David Fanning on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:18
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: K. Bowman on Mon, 14 February 2005 12:41
		Re: Reading HDF5 Variable By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 February 2005 13:40

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