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Re: Student versions of IDL and PVWAVE [message #3878 is a reply to message #3693]

Tue, 04 April 1995 00:00

afl
Messages: 51
Registered: December 1994

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Ken,

Sorry if I dragged you into my semi-annual "grumble posting".
Now that I've moved from D.C. to Boulder I should be more careful!

I should be more fair, as you noted, but it irked me
a bit to read about how great the support is in the recent
blurb on IDL 4.0 that was posted to this newsgroup.
The blurb makes life seem so rosey, but life isn't very rosey
and I spend a great deal of my time trying to get IDL to behave.
I think RSI is still a very necessary option for help, I mean what
happens when you have a problem with a new routine? There is
probably no one out there to assist except the authors themselves!

The help David Stern offered us with contour filling was outstanding,
but it is easy for me to remember the bad experiences over the
good (i.e., it took MANY hours of personal struggle, as well as
struggle with the support staff to finally get to the point where
David brought forth the solution).

The bottom line is that I would prefer no other
analysis package/graphics tool to IDL.
It saved me from NCAR Graphics! (Uh-oh, here I go again).
I just don't like the misleading message that comes
with the IDL 4.0 advertisement. We fell for that message
in the past... but maybe this is something they are working on,
and the future will be on the pinkish side of rosey.

P.S. I like some of the things I see in the IDL 4.0 beta.
The hypertext help is fantastic! The links are wonderful.
Is there a FORWARD button in the newest beta version?

Map_continents seems to be greatly enhanced, but the
functionality may have changed a bit (uh-oh!).

<End Semi-annual "Grumble Posting">

Andy

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Boulder, CO 80309-0449 USA

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