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Alternatives to IDL? [message #4564]

Thu, 08 June 1995 00:00

mal3p
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Registered: June 1994

Junior Member

I have been using IDL for about a year now, and like recent posters,
it has become my main language for scientific computation, despite
its quirks. However, I may soon be leaving academe and am looking
for a low cost alternative that satisfies the following conditions:

1) Must have data structures
2) Must have support for unformatted I/O (ie binary files)
3) Should have fortran like procedural language
4) Preferably interactive.

I have seen a lot of comparisons to other languages in the recent
discussion of the merits of IDL. I know Fortran, C++ and Pascal,
but am unfamilar with APL and some of the other more exotic languages.
Can someone with knowledge of these suggest an alternative to
returning to <sniff> fortran90?

Michael

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