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Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question [message #28727 is a reply to message #28724]

Wed, 09 January 2002 12:06

Andy Loughe
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Mark Fardal wrote:
>
> Francis Burton <F.Burton@biomed.gla.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> How easy would it be to obtain the functionality of IDL by
>> using Python as the underlying language glue, supplemented
>> by hard-coded modules for image, signal & file processing,
>> graphical I/O etc.?
>
> Not very easy. But easier than say, writing an open-source
> operating system, and look what happened there...
>
> Just don't try doing it by yourself. The Numpy and SciPy mailing
> lists are places to start. At least on the Numpy list, the topic of
> IDL emulation and translation has come up recently.
>
> Mark

Mmmm... maybe you should ask someone who has done it!

http://nickbower.com/computer/pydl

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		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Mark Fardal on Wed, 09 January 2002 13:45
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Andy Loughe on Wed, 09 January 2002 12:06
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Mark Fardal on Wed, 09 January 2002 11:51
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 09 January 2002 02:28
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 08 January 2002 11:38
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 08 January 2002 10:16
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: rmw092001 on Wed, 09 January 2002 18:55
		Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question By: Francis Burton on Thu, 10 January 2002 02:15

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