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Re: Migrate away from idl? [message #68763 is a reply to message #68669]

Thu, 19 November 2009 11:04

R.G.Stockwell
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Registered: October 2004

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"David Fanning" <news@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.256f0392482b948698a7ce@news.giganews.com...
> Maarten writes:
>
>>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming
>>
>> The latter is very valuable. Without it I would have gone python quite
>> some time ago.
>
> Oh, oh. As someone interested in progress, I'll be shutting
> the site down on Friday, so we can all get on with it... :-(
>
> This whole discussion is depressing to me. Not because I
> am such a huge fan of IDL, but because it all seems so
> predictable to me. I understand this feeling of wanting to
> look around for something else. Personally, I feel like I
> haven't gotten anything of value for my IDL maintenance
> dollars in the past five years or so. By "value" I mean
> something I actually use in my IDL work. (24-bit PostScript
> support is the exception.)
>
> More iTool geegaws is unlikely to stem this tide of
> interest in finding tools that are intuitive and simple
> to use. Frankly, resizeable graphics windows and decent
> fonts in direct graphics would have kept a lot of people from
> looking around for something else. The best you can say
> about IDL these days is that it isn't bad. I can see why
> that's not generating a fanatical following.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Agree 100%. The their vision is not the same as mine, in
where IDL should go. The workbench is sort of a nice try at
being an IDE, but all I really notice about it is that the hot keys
have changed, and now ctrl W does not go to the command line,
instead it closes my editing window, and then i have to search my
1Tb harddrive for the file I was working on. (it doesn't even go to
the 'recent file' list).

So, that is what I have paid thousands of dollars for. Sneak attacks
on my file. lol.

cheers,
bob

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		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 November 2009 06:26
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 19 November 2009 04:25
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Mort Canty on Thu, 19 November 2009 01:41
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Ivan Zimine on Wed, 18 November 2009 19:36
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: penteado on Wed, 18 November 2009 16:58
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 18 November 2009 15:56
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 19 November 2009 11:04
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Nikola on Thu, 19 November 2009 07:43

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