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Re: A rant: features vs. programming features [message #10271 is a reply to message #10270]

Mon, 03 November 1997 00:00

art.croucher
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Registered: March 1995

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Counter-rant:

You could be using PV-Wave, which is completely lacking in ANY features
which make programming easier. The tools available to Wave users under
NT are somewhat more primitive than what I had when I learned Fortran
(in the '70s). No editor of any kind (let alone language-sensitive),
and no debugger.

VNI adds new display features constantly, but they seem to have
absolutely no idea that some of us actual PROGRAM using their product.

There are actually a few programs that I'd like to program using the
fancy features, but I'd happily program that stuff myself in exchange
for having the programming tools that would let me save 50% of my time
on 100% of my programming.

Art Croucher
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Joseph B. Gurman wrote:
>
> I was wondering whether anyone else is has the impression that I do of
> IDL 5: that it makes programming many things easier, and certainly niftier
> (at least if OOP is your idea of nifty), but it hasn't added much in the
> way of real functionality.
>

(snip)

> --
> Joseph B. Gurman / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Solar Data Analysis Center / Code 682 / Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov / gurman@ari.net
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