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Re: Top 10 for old farts [message #20911 is a reply to message #20847]

Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00

Mark Hadfield
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"Joseph B. Gurman" <gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:gurman-FF65F5.09515928072000@news.gsfc.nasa.gov...
> I guess you've seen the responses from Mark Hadfield and Luis Alonso
> on the overhead involved in using objects.

Speaking only for myself (not Luis) I should elaborate.

As David has already pointed out so well elsewhere in this thread

"OBJECTS" does not equal "OBJECT GRAPHICS"

Objects were a necessary development in IDL and are certainly a good thing
IMHO. Well, OK some of the design decisions were debatable.

Object graphics were also a necessary development but are less obviously a
good thing. The main problem with them is that producing a simple plot using
IDL's standard object graphics facilities is ridiculously difficult. It's
possible to finish RSI's job by writing a set of smarter, higher-level
graphics classes & routines but it's a lot of work. Hence my comment about
productivity.

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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		Top 10 for old farts By: Joseph B. Gurman on Fri, 28 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: davidf on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: davidf on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: davidf on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: promashkin on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Ben Tupper on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Martin Schultz on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Michael Cugley on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: davidf on Sun, 30 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: davidf on Sun, 30 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Joseph B. Gurman on Sun, 30 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Joseph B. Gurman on Sun, 30 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Pete Riley on Sat, 29 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 01 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Michael Cugley on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: davidf on Wed, 02 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for old farts By: Luis Alonso on Wed, 02 August 2000 00:00

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