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Re: Why IDL Is Not My Favorite Platform (was Re: IDL alternatives?) [message #4408 is a reply to message #4405] Thu, 01 June 1995 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In article <3qkvvn$jkc@nntp.Stanford.EDU> zowie@banneker.stanford.edu
(Craig DeForest) wrote this and more in earlier posts:
> I kvetched:

... and had a long diatribe

> Craig DeForest

When I read the original post I thought to myself "This guy has hit the
nail on the head and put into words what I have felt for a long time".
Then after careful picking by others, it has become apparent that
Criag has used a good many words to say essentially nothing. His one
real point that I must have originally keyed on is that IDL needs to
be able to vectorize further in some undefined, but natural, way so
that there is a way to reduce the need for looping. I continually
find myself extracting subarrays and performing transposes just to be
able to avoid FOR loops, but this can typically only be done at the
first level of a task and then I have to resort to FOR loops to
perform these tasks repetitively. I do not know exactly what I am
asking for here, but I will know it when I see it (if I ever do). The
remainder of Craig's comments boil down to his saying "IDL does not
look and feel like $1500 worth of software", but then he goes on to
say "despite that I prefer it for some strange reason and it does
work."

In the future, please keep your "crufting" and "kvetching" to
a minimum and get to the point (and along the way use real words).
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