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Re: JD Smith Missing [message #83407 is a reply to message #83406] |
Sat, 02 March 2013 04:43   |
Lajos Foldy
Messages: 176 Registered: December 2011
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Hi David,
On Saturday, March 2, 2013 2:33:49 AM UTC+1, David Fanning wrote:
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> It has just been brought to my attention that all my links to JD Smith's
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> wonderful IDLWAVE EMACS mode (idlwave.org) are now pointing to IDLWAVE
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> Investing. I can believe JD found a better gig, but what about the rest
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> Even the jdtsmith/idlwawve GetHub repository doesn't look like it has
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> been touched for a couple of years and has the same investment link on
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> it that my page has.
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> Does anyone have any idea what is up here? People are concerned and want
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
I think IDLWAVE was integrated into emacs a long time ago, it is part of emacs now. The manual page is here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/idlwave.h tml
regards,
Lajos
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Re: JD Smith Missing [message #84056 is a reply to message #83405] |
Thu, 25 April 2013 19:04  |
JDS
Messages: 94 Registered: March 2009
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I had one of those brief out of body experiences when scanning for titles and I came across this one. Turns out I am only *mostly* missing. The idlwave.org domain did sunset. Thanks to the kind folks of RSI who sponsored it for 10 years. It apparently had generated enough traffic to convince some shady types to snap up the domain and park some bogus investment blog there. Please dig a hole in the ground to put your money in before following any of the advice there. In any case, github is the new home (now correctly linked on my web pages, please update yours as well).
Unfortunately, I don't have much time anymore to develop and maintain IDLWAVE, which means the crufty version that ships with Emacs is now somewhat... broken.
I am actively seeking a new maintainer for IDLWAVE. If anyone out there has interest, is an IDLWAVE user, and has some basic elisp experience (or willingness to learn), please get in touch. FYI, when I took over IDLWAVE from Carsten (over a dozen years ago!) I had next to no real elisp experience. As a bonus, learning a functional language tremendously improves the rest of your coding abilities by helping you think out of the box, enhances your problem solving acumen, and probably looks good on a resume.
JD
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