GDL version 0.9pre5 released [message #54728] |
Sat, 07 July 2007 09:49 |
marc schellens[1]
Messages: 183 Registered: January 2000
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GDL - GNU Data Language, an IDL 6.0 compatible incremental compiler.
Now available:
Version 0.9pre5, with many new subroutines, speedups and bug fixes
OVERVIEW OF GDL FEATURES:
*FULL* syntax compatibility with IDL 6.0
*ALL* IDL language elements are supported, including:
_EXRA, _REF_EXTRA and _STRICT_EXTRA keywords,
Objects, Pointers, Structs,
Common blocks, Assoc variables,
Arrays, System variables,
All operators, All data types...
Compiles on Linux and Mac OS X
Most image file formats (jpeg, tiff, ...) are supported.
netCDF files are fully supported.
HDF file support.
Basic HDF5 file support.
SAVE and RESTORE support through Craig Markwardt's CMSVLIB library.
Support for DICOM files (GDLffDICOM object from Robbie Barnett).
SOCKET support.
More than 330 library routines are implemented.
For a list enter HELP,/LIB at the command prompt.
Alain Coulais maitains a list of available routines in GDL:
http://aramis.obspm.fr/~coulais/IDL_et_GDL/Matrice_IDLvsGDL_ intrinsic.html
Graphical output is partially implemented. The PLOT and TV commands
(along with WINDOW, WDELETE, SET_PLOT, WSET, TVLCT) work (important
keywords, some !P system variable tags and multi-plots are supported)
for X windows and postscript output.
A GUI (widgets) is not implemeted yet.
HOMEPAGE:
http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net
DOWNLOAD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnudatalanguage/
Gaurav Khanna provides binaries for Mac OS X on his HPC page:
http://hpc.sourceforge.net
Check it out!
Marc
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