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Re: Origin of IDL [message #21520 is a reply to message #21436]

Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00

T Bowers
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Registered: May 1998

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Be careful, IDL also stands for Interface Definition Language used in C, C++
and
Java (and Ada and ?). Look up Interface Definition Language on the net for
more info. This
may cause some confusion.

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!)

todd

"J�rg Schliwa" <joerg.schliwa@ewetel.net> wrote in message
news:8odtlk$1ac$1@ac1.ewetel.de...
> Hi,
>
> I've a general question about the origin of IDL, becourse someone told me
> that IDL is a "procedure"-programming language that is based on a language
> like C/C++ or Fortran.
>
> So, is IDL an unique language or is it developed from another??
>
> I suppose all the specialists in this newsgroup will know that.
>
> Thanks for any hints,
>
> J�rg
>
>

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		Origin of IDL By: J�rg Schliwa on Mon, 28 August 2000 00:00
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