| Re: IDL vs Yorick? [message #32512 is a reply to message #32369] |
Thu, 10 October 2002 09:18  |
Amar Nayegandhi
Messages: 15
Registered: May 2001
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> I didn't like Yorick's command line -- it has no editing facilities. You
> can get these by running it inside Emacs, however.
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you could use 'rlterm' to get command line editing and history in Yorick.
Further, C. Wayne Wright has provided GUI capabilities to Yorick by using
Tcl/Tk and expect. Its called Ytk. You can read more about it at
http://ytk.sourceforge.net. I use Yorick and Ytk on a Linux platform and
it works great!
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> Neither R nor Yorick has built-in geographical mapping. This is a Really
> Big Issue for us and the main reason why we have not (yet) told RSI where to
> stuff their pricing scheme.
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We have in the past converted coastline ascii files to Portable Binary
Data (pbd) files in Yorick. These .pbd files are system independent. You
can easily generate pbd files in Yorick.
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> Hopefully, this kind of discussion will encourage RSI to drop their prices,
> but they seem to have the Microsoft mentality of jacking the prices up and
> hoping that their customers are too comfortable to look for alternatives.
> Right now, we might be................
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I agree... I still use IDL, but hope that competition from open source
will help in bringing prices down.
-amar
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