| Re: RSI's Priorities (was: GUI Builder...) [message #13500 is a reply to message #13448] |
Sat, 14 November 1998 00:00   |
gurman
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Registered: August 1992
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In article <364DDB7F.C8531805@io.harvard.edu>, Martin Schultz
<mgs@io.harvard.edu> wrote:
> David Fanning wrote:
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>> Brian Jackel (jackel@danlon.physics.uwo.ca) writes:
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>> [...]
>>>
>>> New bells and whistles at $1500 a pop or
>>> Freeze development and deliver an ``IDL Classic'' at
>>> $500 per head.
>>
[Long comments omitted so my new client will let me post!]
Frankly, I just pulled down the objects manual and the 5.1 changes
manual the other day for the first time, to try to see if it was a better
way to write MPEG movies than I was using (should I cross post to that
thread?). Applying Occam's razor (the one that slits your throat if you
try doing things elegantly when you already have three job titles and a
family to boot), I will probably decide to make do with what I know how to
do instead.... but I'm intrigued. Maybe next time.
More to the point, the folks here who _do_ have time all prefer
objects, and have written some very powerful analysis tools built around
them. (See, for example,
http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/~zarro/idl/maps.html .)
And they're even scientists.... and even got their degrees more than 10
years ago. Guess I'll go with the opinions of those who write the most and
best code here.
Joe Gurman
P.S. And on the subject of MPEG movies and 3 x m x n arrays (why did RSI
have to make that the default for MPEG_PUT if you want color?), I'm
spoiled by a machine that's fast enough that I don't really have to worry
about the speed difference between intelligent and silly index ordering.
Now that's spoiled.
P.P.S. And yes, sigh, scientists do work weekends. I understand Ken Burns
used the "The intellect of man is forced to chose / Perfection of the life
or of the work" line of Yeats in his show on Frank Lloyd Wright. I wonder
if he used the next line: "and if it take the second must refuse a
heavenly mansion, raging in the dark."
--
Joseph B. Gurman / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Solar Physics Branch /
Greenbelt MD 20771 / work: gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov /other: gurman@ari.net
Government employees are still not allowed to hold opinions while at work,
so any opinions expressed herein must be someone else's.
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