| Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! [message #82254] |
Mon, 26 November 2012 06:31 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Craig Markwardt writes:
> Doesn't anyone speak
> '68'xb '65'xb '78'xb '61'xb '64'xb '65'xb '63'xb '69'xb '6d'xb '61'xb '6c'xb
> around here?
Only those people who think they are twice as good
as the rest of us! ;-)
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 thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! [message #82255 is a reply to message #82254] |
Mon, 26 November 2012 06:26  |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
Registered: November 1996
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On Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:36:54 AM UTC-5, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
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> Please join me in signing the petition below to get the
> company to reverse this disastrous decision to make the
> font tables understandable. We need to restore
> the integrity and purpose of this IDL newsgroup to
> explain the obscure to the uninitiated. Anything less
> is completely unacceptable.
Doesn't anyone speak
'68'xb '65'xb '78'xb '61'xb '64'xb '65'xb '63'xb '69'xb '6d'xb '61'xb '6c'xb
around here?
Craig
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| Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! [message #82256 is a reply to message #82255] |
Mon, 26 November 2012 06:14 |
Jeremy Bailin
Messages: 618
Registered: April 2008
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On 11/25/12 1:18 PM, lefsky@gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 25, 9:36 am, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I want to report a sneaky development I just discovered by
>> the so-called "computer scientists" at ExelisVis that has
>> the potential to undermine everything we hold dear about
>> IDL. I refer, of course, to modifications in the IDL 8.2
>> documentation that changes the reading of the font tables
>> from octal to simple decimal numbers! What the ...!?
>>
>> Don't these people realize this is the only place left
>> in the world where it is possible to still run into this
>> endangered species? Removing these octal tables is an
>> outrage and will impoverish untold generations of IDL
>> programmers in the future. Not to mention making it easy
>> for programming rift-raft to figure out how to get the
>> font character they are looking for. What's the point
>> of having experts now!?
>>
>> Please join me in signing the petition below to get the
>> company to reverse this disastrous decision to make the
>> font tables understandable. We need to restore
>> the integrity and purpose of this IDL newsgroup to
>> explain the obscure to the uninitiated. Anything less
>> is completely unacceptable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Coyote
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-Jeremy.
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| Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! [message #82267 is a reply to message #82256] |
Sun, 25 November 2012 11:01 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
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Michael Lefsky writes:
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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 thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! [message #82268 is a reply to message #82267] |
Sun, 25 November 2012 10:18 |
lefsky@gmail.com
Messages: 13
Registered: June 2010
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On Nov 25, 9:36 am, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I want to report a sneaky development I just discovered by
> the so-called "computer scientists" at ExelisVis that has
> the potential to undermine everything we hold dear about
> IDL. I refer, of course, to modifications in the IDL 8.2
> documentation that changes the reading of the font tables
> from octal to simple decimal numbers! What the ...!?
>
> Don't these people realize this is the only place left
> in the world where it is possible to still run into this
> endangered species? Removing these octal tables is an
> outrage and will impoverish untold generations of IDL
> programmers in the future. Not to mention making it easy
> for programming rift-raft to figure out how to get the
> font character they are looking for. What's the point
> of having experts now!?
>
> Please join me in signing the petition below to get the
> company to reverse this disastrous decision to make the
> font tables understandable. We need to restore
> the integrity and purpose of this IDL newsgroup to
> explain the obscure to the uninitiated. Anything less
> is completely unacceptable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Coyote
131 157 165 47 162 145 40 157 156 145 40 167 145 151 162 144 40 144
165 144 145 40 104 141 166 145 56
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