Re: IDL, Mathematica, Matlab [message #8804] |
Mon, 28 April 1997 00:00 |
thompson
Messages: 584 Registered: August 1991
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Philippe Coujoulou <pcoujoul@eur.ericsson.se> writes:
> IDL is not a programming language. It is for the description of
> interfaces, i.e. you can use it to make different OO languages
> interwork.
> For exemple, you can write a client with java and a server with C++. And
> you specify the interface of your C++ objects with IDL, so that your
> java client can call them (using IDL).
> wei-chen lin wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I am new to IDL and am wondering what the strength and weakness
>> of IDL are, in comparison with Mathmatica and Matlab. Does someone have
>> some insight?
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>> Thanks
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>> Wei C. Lin
I think there's probably some confusion here about what IDL is being referred
to. I believe that Wei C. Lin was asking about the Interactive Data Language
from Research Systems Incorporated. The correct newsgroup for that is
comp.lang.idl-pvwave.
William Thompson
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