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Re: Good programming practices and commercial development with IDL [message #73085 is a reply to message #73082] Fri, 22 October 2010 07:26 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:

> If I were building a commercial application, I would
> want it to *look* like a commercial application. So,
> if I were doing this, I'd make sure the damn thing ran
> on Windows computers. You put a Motif application on
> a Macintosh and you are asking for ridicule.

I forgot to mention that I just heard last night
about a VERY big IDL shop that is migrating their
very large IDL application to JAVA, primarily
because of the better GUI interface. Most of their
customers use Linux and Mac computers. That is
not a good sign. :-(

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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