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Re: Top 10 IDL Requests [message #20804 is a reply to message #20666]

Tue, 25 July 2000 00:00

bradgom
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In article <397876AD.283E645D@kla-tencor.com>,
Eric Vella <eric.vella@kla-tencor.com> wrote:
> Here's a more ambitious request, which I don't expect RSI to
> consider, but what the heck: Rewrite IDL as a Perl module. The IDL
> syntax is really annoying, with all sorts of hard to remember quirks and
> strange behavior everywhere.

Well, someone who is locked in Perl-mode is bound to think this way. The
converse is also true- a trained IDL user will find Perl to be extremely
quirky and counterintuitive. Both languages represent distinctly different
approaches, and are not necessarily equally well suited to all tasks.

> This was not so bad when IDL was young and
> had just a few simple commands, but in recent years RSI has expanded IDL
> into a full-blown language. This is a classic example of reinventing
> the wheel, badly. I have no interest in learning a complete new computer
> language, so I will never be an advanced IDL user -- I will just use

When it comes to things like parsing strings, Perl is pretty good. When it
comes to any kind of analysis involving arrays, IDL is superior -both from
the standpoint of syntax simplicity, and computational efficiency. The Perl
Data Language is an attempt to add IDL functionality to Perl, and while it is
useable, it is a far more blatant case of 'reinventing the wheel, badly'.

Having learned C and IDL first, I am probably biased against Perl, but I
suspect if you took an average student who had never programmed before, and
asked them to write a quick routine to do some data visualization in PDL and
IDL, they would have a far easier time with IDL.

If you don't want to learn any new syntax different from Perl, you will
probably have a hard time finding any other language to use.

Brad Gom

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