comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive

Home » Public Forums » archive » Comma seperators

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Comma seperators [message #20223 is a reply to message #20173]

Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00

Paul van Delst
Messages: 364
Registered: March 1997

Senior Member

Martin Schultz wrote:
>
> Who ever put out the word that MS Excel could be used by sane scientists
> should
> be hanged, quartered, stoned, etc. (or, to be a little more friendly: at
> least put
> into a different state of mind ;-)

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I have seen one of my bosses do things
with Excel in a night that took me weeks to replicate in IDL. My result
was a lot more flexible, but we still ended up with the same numbers and
in the intervening 2 weeks he had furthered the science much, *much*
more. Mind you on the scale of smart, I have been fortunate in that all
my supervisors have been way off the scale (in the positive sense) - you
know, the "think outside of the box" type of bods.

> order and format before writing an IDL reader. Largest trouble I have
> with this piece of creamware is that seldomly two spreadsheets look
^^^^^^^^^

Ha ha. Nice description! If I was drinking milk it would be coming out
my nose. hee hee.

paulv
--
Paul van Delst Ph: (301) 763-8000 x7274
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP Fax: (301) 763-8545
Rm.202, 5200 Auth Rd. Email: pvandelst@ncep.noaa.gov
Camp Springs MD 20746

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Comma seperators By: Simon de Vet on Thu, 18 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: promashkin on Tue, 23 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: davidf on Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: davidf on Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Comma seperators By: Martin Schultz on Wed, 24 May 2000 00:00

Previous Topic:	Re: unexpected colors
Next Topic:	Re: IDLgrClipboard and IDLgrPrinter: wrong vector output order ?

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Thu Oct 09 23:07:33 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.48222 seconds