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Re: IDL 6.0 [message #34609 is a reply to message #34528]

Fri, 28 March 2003 07:51

mmiller3
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>>>> > "Michael" == Michael A Miller <mmiller3@iupui.edu> writes:

> That and access to command line arguments like every other
> language on the planet would go a long way to streamlining
> my IDL use.

To clarify my point a bit - what I'm getting at is that much of
what we do here with IDL is interactive, so the "I" in IDL is
really great. Even more of what we do is along the lines of
"take what we've developed interactively and repeat it over and
over and over ad infinitum." The cumbersome methods that are
needed to pass parameters to IDL codes from outside IDL has
resulted in some really ugly kludges around here.

One source of that seems to be that many of us new-old-schoolers
(troglodytes that is :-) tend to want to string a collection of
programs together in sequence with a script. To do that with
IDL, every tool we develop with IDL needs to have an additional
layer of code wrapped around it to handle the fact that IDL has
no access to command line arguments. That's something that we
(well, ok, I) got used to back in the 80's and it is hard to give
up. Even though IDL has lots of wonderful features, that "I" for
interactive makes some harder to get at than I'd like.

Ok, I'll get off that soap box now ;-)

Mike

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Michael A. Miller mmiller3@iupui.edu
Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine

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		Re: IDL 6.0 By: mmiller3 on Fri, 28 March 2003 07:28
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