| Re: Writing an IDL application using a C++ data model. [message #56687] |
Sun, 11 November 2007 22:01 |
Robbie
Messages: 165
Registered: February 2006
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Wow! That's the first time I've been asked that so directly. Perhaps,
I'll try to tone down a bit. I still do plenty of "mere mortal" things
with IDL and it works very well.
Indeed, there is an intrinsic problem with IDL when trying to transfer
an in-house algorithm to an end-user application. Like every
technology, IDL gets used for things it was never originally designed
to do, and then gets abused for doing such a poor job.
There are a handful of common problems that seem to crop up on the
newsgroup, and interfacing with C++ is certainly one of them. Python
has done it very well, Matlab has sort of done it, but why not IDL?
Surely a good C++ interface would speed up development at Boulder too.
Cheers,
Robbie
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| Re: Writing an IDL application using a C++ data model. [message #56688 is a reply to message #56687] |
Sun, 11 November 2007 20:35  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Robbie writes:
> I was wondering if anyone has written an IDL application where most of
> the data and meta data is stored and handled in C++?
I have to admit, Robbie, your posts have become
increasingly incomprehensible to me over the past
several months. But I think you may have gone
completely over the edge with this one.
Tell me again, WHY do you work with IDL!?
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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