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Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL [message #8307]

Wed, 26 February 1997 00:00

Mirko Vukovic
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Registered: January 1996

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R. Bauer wrote:
>
> Judith Bachman wrote:
>>
>> I'm fairly new to IDL programming. I'm finding that IDL
>> does it's job well, but it doesn't help me or the rest of my team
>> do ours very well!
>>
>> As experienced C/C++ programmers we really miss a
>> compiler that can warn that we've messed up a calling sequence or
>> done something that's probably dumb as far as data typing goes.
>> We are finding that we're spending a lot of time doing "desk
>> checking" to catch things that a complier catches. Does anyone
>> have a "lint" like program for IDL or are we going to have to
>> learn to be VERY careful when we code? Does anyone have
>> recommended coding standards that might help. We're using a
>> "Hungarian notation" derivative to help keep data typing under
>> control - that's been a help.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions that folks might have.
>> Judith Bachman
>> Judith.Bachman@gsfc.nasa.gov
>
> I programmed a lot of my idl source code on several different platforms.
> I think unfortunality the best kind of editor or debugger I found was on
> idl 4.01 for windows.
> I really don't understand why such features as idl for windows have are
> not possible for unix.
>
> --
> R.Bauer
>
> Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
> Forschungszentrum Juelich
> email: R.Bauer@kfa-juelich.de
best? I thought that it sucked and was buggy. But then, I never read
the manual :-) I edit in emacs. (which is not half as good for language
sensitive editing as DEC's LSE)
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Varian Associates Palo Alto, CA, 94304
415/424-4969 mirko.vukovic@varian.grc.com

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		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: Mirko Vukovic on Wed, 26 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: R. Bauer on Wed, 26 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: davidf on Wed, 26 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: William Clodius on Wed, 26 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: William Clodius on Tue, 25 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: grunes on Tue, 25 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: Tim Patterson on Mon, 24 February 1997 00:00
		Re: are there any s/w eng tools for IDL By: Mirko Vukovic on Mon, 24 February 1997 00:00

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