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Why are you still here? [message #87185] Tue, 14 January 2014 14:43 Go to next message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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Folks,

Some of you may wonder why the hell I'm still here. I was so discouraged
about being able to make a living with IDL a month ago I had pretty much
made up my mind to retire at the end of 2013.

But, modest amounts of contributions in December were encouraging. This
week I got the biggest contribution ever. Someone essentially sent me
the support check he would have sent to ExelisVis, reasoning that for
what he did he didn't need the latest version of IDL and that I provided
a hell of a lot more support to him than they did. Wow!

So, I'm back in business. For how long, I don't know. Until the money
totally runs out, I guess. Or, until a job comes along that is more
compelling than this is.

Just thought I'd let you know what even modest contributions can
accomplish. ;-)

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
Re: Why are you still here? [message #87187 is a reply to message #87185] Tue, 14 January 2014 16:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
wlandsman is currently offline  wlandsman
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When I saw this question, I thought it was going to mean "Why are you (the reader) still here, i.e. in an IDL newsgroup?" I had never heard of the Julia ( http://julialang.org ) language before last week, but since then I've come across multiple references to it as the next hip programming language for scientists. So though I have no plans to give up on IDL, I am feeling a bit unfashionable.

--Wayne


On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:43:17 PM UTC-5, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
>
> Some of you may wonder why the hell I'm still here. I was so discouraged
>
> about being able to make a living with IDL a month ago I had pretty much
>
> made up my mind to retire at the end of 2013.
>
Re: Why are you still here? [message #87188 is a reply to message #87187] Tue, 14 January 2014 16:18 Go to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
Senior Member
Wayne writes:

> When I saw this question, I thought it was going to mean "Why are you (the reader) still here, i.e. in an IDL newsgroup?"

While I was writing the title of the post, the ironic nature of the
question appealed to me. :-)

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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