| Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines [message #17219 is a reply to message #17029] |
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In article <37E6847D.78334B19@itsa.ucsf.edu>,
Karl Young <kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu> writes:
>> In IDL, it takes four lines:
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>> openr, lun, 'image.dat', /free_lun
>> image = bytarr(512, 512)
>> readu, lun, image
>> tvscl, image
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>> Those four lines of code will work on any IDL platform, and in under a
>> minute you're looking at an image...
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> That is certainly a strength of IDL but I disagree that the same advantages
> can't be had with C++. As a case in point we use a great (copyleft and hence
> freely available) NMR simulation package called Gamma which is
> a library of C++ functions. The NMR scientists who don't want to think about
> programming can run an extremely complex NMR simulation with 4 or 5 lines of code.
But you still have to compile these 4-5 lines of code everytime you
make a little change. IMO thi sis one of the IDL virtues that you can
interactively "play" with your data.
Martin
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