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Re: Anyone Use Objects?, Was: Top 10 IDL Requests [message #20861 is a reply to message #20776]

Thu, 27 July 2000 00:00

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:

> Joseph B. Gurman (gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov) writes:
>
>> And I'm very serious about the point above. I may be stuck knowing a
>> bunch of old farts (not, actually), but maybe one person in twenty here
>> actually uses the object capabilities when given a choice.
>
> Oh, I don't doubt your figures at all. I just think it
> is a shame, given how easy objects are to use (and I am
> *not* talking about object graphics now) and how
> significantly they could change the way your write
> programs.
>
> But I'm old enough to remember how we had to bring
> all you old farts, uh, excuse me, scientific programmers,
> along with widgets, too, so I still hold out hope. :-)

When I do my "I"nterative "D"ata analyses, I don't use objects or
widgets. What would be the point? PLOT is your best friend. For me
the most important thing is ease of use at the interactive command
line; then, once I have a nice plot, I plop it into a script (or use
XFWINDOW) and I can reliably come back to it later. Monkeying around
with axis objects seems like it would be a pain. And from what I hear
the object graphics printed output is pretty crappy [at least up until
now.] That doesn't seem like a good trade...

So, for the interactive command line user, which would you recommend
David?

Craig

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		Anyone Use Objects?, Was: Top 10 IDL Requests By: davidf on Wed, 26 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Anyone Use Objects?, Was: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Andy Loughe on Fri, 28 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Anyone Use Objects?, Was: Top 10 IDL Requests By: davidf on Thu, 27 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Anyone Use Objects?, Was: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 27 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Anyone Use Objects?, Was: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Luis Alonso on Thu, 27 July 2000 00:00
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