| Re: Arrays: strange feature ?! [message #20057 is a reply to message #19877] |
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marc schellens[1]
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Registered: January 2000
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David Fanning wrote:
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> Luca Fini (lfini@arcetri.astro.it) writes:
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>> IDL is clearly a language grown by piling up things with no previous
>> design. Its syntax is crazy and some characteristics are very annoying.
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> Some of us find in IDL the same subtle intelligence
> that pervades the Universe. If it seems crazy to us,
> it is because we haven't evolved our consciousness
> enough to perceive the underlying plan.
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I agree, but the universe perhaps has to be this way, while a
programming language *could* be for sure more clearly structured that
IDL.
Even this array stuff Nicolas complains about isn't a bug but a feature
(i.e. the syntax of IDL) like Alex pointed out.
But another more funny 'feature' is this:
IDL> print,'abc'
abc
IDL> print,"abc"
abc
IDL> print,'777'
777
IDL> print,"777"
print,"777"
^
% Syntax error.
Cheers,
:-) marc
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