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Re: Sacrilegious but genuine question [message #28740 is a reply to message #28728]

Wed, 09 January 2002 02:28

Nigel Wade
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Francis Burton wrote:

> 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.? It seems that it can already do that in
> some problem domains - e.g. Python Imaging Library.

That might provide some functionality for image processing. But what about
all the other graphics/visualization capabilities of IDL? To emulate those
you need to find other Python add-ons, each with its own peculiarities,
build and install them, configure them to do what you want and maybe
they'll come somewhere near what IDL can do out of the box.

>
> Put another way: What are the advantages of IDL compared to
> such an open source framework?

Support and functionality

(unless you own a Mac - but we're not going there again are we?)

What do you do when the author of your favorite Python add-on gets bored
with Python and decides to go on to do something else?

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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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