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Re: Philosophical Scaling Question [message #51719 is a reply to message #51605]

Tue, 05 December 2006 07:12

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Brian Larsen writes:
>
>> When will we see this book, seems my grant could use sending some money
>> your way? Is it 3rd edition of IDL Programming Techniques or something
>> different.
>
> We'll probably never see it. :-(
>
> At the moment my thinking is that the 3rd Edition will weigh
> in at about 15 pounds if I put into it everything I want to
> put into it. I'm pretty sure no one will read the damn thing.
>
> So I've been thinking about a slimmer volume entitled
> "Interactive IDL: What You Can Still Do at a Command
> Line With the Dopey Old Direct Graphics". I'm going
> to bet a fair bit of money this will *still* sell like
> hotcakes. :-)

I agree with Braedley. I'm into tomes at the moment *provided* they come in both print and
pdf. The pdf's go on my various computers for immediate reference/searching and the tome
stays at home for reading during, uh, erm, quieter moments. I realise there's a piracy
issue involved, but I wish more publishers pulled their heads out of the sand and made pdf
e-books available (I hope someone from O'Reilly is reading this :o)

BTW, my copy of your original book was lost (i.e. "borrowed".. grrr) years ago. Is that
available as a PDF?

paulv

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		Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 December 2006 08:15
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 December 2006 11:57
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: news.qwest.net on Tue, 05 December 2006 11:37
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 05 December 2006 13:49
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 December 2006 07:34
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 05 December 2006 07:12
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 December 2006 11:21
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Braedley on Mon, 04 December 2006 11:13
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 December 2006 10:45
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 04 December 2006 10:30

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