| Re: Arrays: strange feature ?! [message #20019 is a reply to message #19877] |
Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00   |
Nicolas Decoster
Messages: 34
Registered: March 2000
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David Fanning wrote:
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> Nicolas Decoster (Nicolas.Decoster@Noveltis.fr) writes:
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>> Well, in fact I am in consulting business. And I was before I had to
>> meet IDL. IDL come to me as a tool to do my consulting business. I guess
>> the people I work for do not mind I know well the quote-double
>> quote-octal thing of IDL. They do not ever mind I use IDL or not. They
>> want me to correctly analyse and treat their data. It is my business to
>> do it not too slowly. But you are right, perhaps I can convince them IDL
>> _is_ the ultimate tool to treat their data, and they absolutly need idl
>> scripts and applications to handle their data efficiently at home and to
>> exploit my results, and IDL is very powerful but require quite complex
>> programming but I know the holy words (i.e. the "quote-double quote"
>> thing) to built such complex-bu-powerful-applications... hum... Then ?
>> $$$ Kling ! $$$ Money !!!
>>
>> Yeaaah !
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> Now you've got the idea. It's all a matter of marketing. :-)
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>> Thanks for the tip, David. I suggest you replace the tip of the year on
>> your site by this one. :-)
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> Yeah, I have been looking for something new. I haven't been
> asked a color question in ages. I'm writing the color section
> for the 2nd Edition of the book now, but maybe I should do us
> all a favor and just delete this section and save room
> for more array subscribing features. :-)
Just to be sure you understood my suggestion: the tip I'm talking about
is the entrepenarial one, not the array-subscript one. But, of course, I
guess this tip can't appear on a site which is part of the... marketing.
Later.
Nicolas.
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