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Re: literate programming tools for IDL? [message #60290] Wed, 07 May 2008 20:36
Gernot Hassenpflug is currently offline  Gernot Hassenpflug
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Registered: April 2001
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"mgalloy@gmail.com" <mgalloy@gmail.com> writes:

> On May 7, 5:09 am, Gernot Hassenpflug <ger...@nict.go.jp> wrote:
>> Dear group,
>>
>> Again I am bothering you with a trivial question to which Google could
>> not provide an answer:
>>
>> I want to write some IDL programs using the paradigm of literate
>> programming; as an example, I use matlabweb[1] to do so when writing
>> Matlab code.
>>
>> Although I discovered Doxygen[2] (and the older Doc++) I could not
>> find any system that has existing support for IDL.
>>
>> I did find pages which allow me to convert IDL code first to
>> Matlab[3][4], but nothing that could do the reverse.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated. I am doubtful that I have the
>> skills to write my own "idlweb" program at short notice, sadly.
>
> I wouldn't consider it a tool for literate programming, but since you
> mention Doxygen and Doc++, you should at least know about IDLdoc
> (similar to Doxygen, Javadoc, and Epydoc).
>
> Main page:
> http://idldoc.idldev.com/
>
> Getting Started:
> http://idldoc.idldev.com/wiki/GettingStarted
>
> Example of IDLdoc'ed code:
> http://michaelgalloy.com/lib

As you can guess from my confused post, I do not have any real
experience! Thank you for the links, I was not aware of IDLdoc yet.

Regards,
Gernot
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Re: literate programming tools for IDL? [message #60291 is a reply to message #60290] Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35 Go to previous message
Gernot Hassenpflug is currently offline  Gernot Hassenpflug
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Maarten <maarten.sneep@knmi.nl> writes:

> On May 7, 11:09 am, Gernot Hassenpflug <ger...@nict.go.jp> wrote:
>
>> I want to write some IDL programs using the paradigm of literate
>> programming.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Any help would be much appreciated. I am doubtful that I have the
>> skills to write my own "idlweb" program at short notice, sadly.
>
> Have you considered noweb [1]?
>
> [1] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/

Thanks, I found noweb and am trying to use it. It looks very promising indeed.
Many thanks,
Gernot
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Re: literate programming tools for IDL? [message #60303 is a reply to message #60291] Wed, 07 May 2008 08:03 Go to previous message
Michael Galloy is currently offline  Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006
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On May 7, 5:09 am, Gernot Hassenpflug <ger...@nict.go.jp> wrote:
> Dear group,
>
> Again I am bothering you with a trivial question to which Google could
> not provide an answer:
>
> I want to write some IDL programs using the paradigm of literate
> programming; as an example, I use matlabweb[1] to do so when writing
> Matlab code.
>
> Although I discovered Doxygen[2] (and the older Doc++) I could not
> find any system that has existing support for IDL.
>
> I did find pages which allow me to convert IDL code first to
> Matlab[3][4], but nothing that could do the reverse.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. I am doubtful that I have the
> skills to write my own "idlweb" program at short notice, sadly.

I wouldn't consider it a tool for literate programming, but since you
mention Doxygen and Doc++, you should at least know about IDLdoc
(similar to Doxygen, Javadoc, and Epydoc).

Main page:
http://idldoc.idldev.com/

Getting Started:
http://idldoc.idldev.com/wiki/GettingStarted

Example of IDLdoc'ed code:
http://michaelgalloy.com/lib

Mike
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Re: literate programming tools for IDL? [message #60304 is a reply to message #60303] Wed, 07 May 2008 06:30 Go to previous message
Maarten[1] is currently offline  Maarten[1]
Messages: 176
Registered: November 2005
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On May 7, 11:09 am, Gernot Hassenpflug <ger...@nict.go.jp> wrote:

> I want to write some IDL programs using the paradigm of literate
> programming.

[snip]

> Any help would be much appreciated. I am doubtful that I have the
> skills to write my own "idlweb" program at short notice, sadly.

Have you considered noweb [1]?

[1] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/

Maarten
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