| Re: Any interest in an IDL to Python interface? [message #58975] |
Fri, 29 February 2008 18:49  |
rkombiyil
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On Feb 29, 9:42 am, Jason Ferrara <jason.ferr...@jacquette.com> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 12:13 pm, Reimar Bauer <R.Ba...@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> it could be nice if something like that is added for all supported OS
>> versions not only for windows.
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> Its our plan to support Windows, Linux, and Mac.
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>> python has lots of interesting libraries and is used as scripting
>> language in many programs (OpenOffice.org, Blender, Maya, PyMOL, Gimp, etc.)
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>> The problem will be the price or do you have considered to share it free
>> of charge?
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> It would be a commercial product. The pricing hasn't been determined
> yet.
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>> And another question has to be discussed too. What of idl will be left
>> over if such a powerful programming language will be added to idl.
>> For example this will give us the possibility to use QT4 for widgets. Or
>> we never again do get "the sky is falling down miracle" because of the
>> decimal data type. Or we can use pythons standalone webserver or lots of
>> math libraries free of charge.
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>> One has to ask himself if an idl program is mostly based on python
>> modules why he has to use idl and does not do the whole job in python
>> then? There are not much differences between both languages.
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>> How would the development of idl been continued if we as user could
>> always use other libs?
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> I don't see this as being an issue.
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> Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Its not a one
> size
> fits all thing. Interoperability between languages means you can mix
> and
> match as best solves your problem, rather than having to pick one and
> then struggle with it for the things its not good with.
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> And more libraries accessible from IDL makes IDL more useful, not
> less.
First of all this is an excellent idea.. But just curious.. what is
the memory overhead in computationally intensive apps? Any bench
marks? I personally am a big python advocate and learning more
everyday! Thanks for any additional info that you can provide.
Best wishes,
/rk
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