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Re: Linux Question [message #42673 is a reply to message #42567]

Fri, 18 February 2005 08:01

btt
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Registered: December 2000

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Paul Van Delst wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Greenberg writes:
>>
>>
>>> David: you are the expert on IDL, one thing I haven't figured out is
>>> what
>>> does IDL have that Matlab/Octave doesn't? As a remote sensor, I use IDL
>>> because of this interface with ENVI. However, why do non-envi users
>>> use IDL
>>> (except for sheer inertia of not wanting to learn a new program)?
>>
>>
>>
>> In a word, objects. :-)
>
>
>
> As to the OP question of "why do non-envi users use IDL" ? Well, in my
> case, it's because the matlab licensing procedure appears (horror of
> horrors) to be even more labyrinthine than that for IDL (how can that
> be!?!). Oh, and:
> - I have a crapload of IDL code
> - Everything in matlab seems to be a string, 4-byte integer, or 8-byte
> real. What's
> the go with that?

Well, I dunno. Your info might be a bit dated. The link below points to the
*very nice* online MatLab help system - in particular look at the 'Data Types'
link on the page. This shows that MatLab seems to comparable data types (except
complex, I think) and that there exists such a thing as 'User Class'. I
couldn't begin to tell you if they are comparable to IDL objects.

http://tinyurl.com/3gpdo

Tears,
Ben

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