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Re: IDL Adventure!? [message #61140]

Mon, 07 July 2008 07:18

Mike[2]
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Registered: December 2005

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On Jul 7, 9:38 am, pgri...@gmail.com wrote:
> It's an IDL-themed entertainment playground similar to "jurassic
> park",
> featuring obscure array reforms and obsolete function calls. Let's
> hope
> histogram won't escape from its cage....

I was hoping it was an IDL-based port of adventure, as in "You are in
a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" and "xyzzy"- that would
be a sure way to get me to upgrade!

Mike

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Re: IDL Adventure!? [message #61141 is a reply to message #61140]

Mon, 07 July 2008 06:38

pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007

Senior Member

It's an IDL-themed entertainment playground similar to "jurassic
park",
featuring obscure array reforms and obsolete function calls. Let's
hope
histogram won't escape from its cage....

Cheers,

Paolo

David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've just gotten home and I am in the process of updating to
> IDL 7.0.3. I see there is something there called the IDL Adventure.
> I can find no information on this on the ITTVIS web page.
> Does anyone have any idea what this is?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. Let's just say I've *always* thought of IDL as an
> adventure, if you know what I mean. :-)
>
> --
> 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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Re: IDL Adventure!? [message #61286 is a reply to message #61141]

Sat, 12 July 2008 12:06

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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pgrigis@gmail.com writes:
> It's an IDL-themed entertainment playground similar to "jurassic
> park",
> featuring obscure array reforms and obsolete function calls.

And it grows organically, beyond the control of ordinary mankind! :-)

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