| Re: GDL - a little uppdate... [message #43712] |
Sat, 23 April 2005 09:51 |
Ken Mankoff
Messages: 158
Registered: February 2000
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Y.T. wrote:
> The more I think about it, the more obvious it appears to me to
> write an IDL clone in python,
You might want to check out PyDL: http://vingilot.org/pydl/
But if you took the source and started coding, I think you would
have a lot of work to do before it worked as well as GDL does. And
both of those are only a fraction of the way to an IDL clone, so
don't expect much.
> Well, I haven't given up yet and I'm still trying -- but this
> obviously requires a pretty hefty pot of coffee before it'll run
> anywhere...
For me it just requires 1 line and about 30 minutes:
% fink install gdl
I try to skip the coffee as the caffeine just makes me jumpy.
As for why its done the way it is done... Obviously I can't answer
for Marc. But sometimes I do projects on obscure hardware and OSes
or use strange development environments/languages just because thats
what I know, or thats what I want to learn, or thats what I feel
like.
-k.
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