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Re: Origin of IDL [message #21506 is a reply to message #21436]

Tue, 29 August 2000 00:00

Peter Clinch
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tbowers wrote:

> Anyway, the IDL here (Interactive Data Lang) is based on FORTRAN, but
> obviously
> they're beginning to see the light and beginning to get a little C-ish
> (e.g., 0 based arrays).
> Now, if they'd just give us NULL, have strings as arrays of characters, and
> have include
> files, I think we'll be ok. (Damn, I'm gonna get flamed for sure!)

You certainly are, you forgot the compilation to fully standalone
executables! ;-)

Pete.
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