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Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun [message #47057 is a reply to message #47056]

Mon, 23 January 2006 05:25

Paolo Grigis
Messages: 171
Registered: December 2003

Senior Member

Maarten wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> After half a year of using IDL I really wonder why anyone with half a
> sane mind would use IDL for new projects. Let's enumerate the reasons
> to use IDL:
>
> 1) Legacy code
> 2) Can't afford Matlab
> 3) Struggled to learn it, afraid to throw away that time to learn
> something else
> 4) Popular in the field of interest, so we struggle together, with a
> lot of code available
> 5) Haven't looked too well at other options
> 6) Masochism, believe others when they say that IDL is really powerful

Or, maybe, 7) one has learned to "think" the IDL Way, and now it is
everything else that feels strange... ;-)

Ciao,
Paolo

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		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 23 January 2006 09:37
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 January 2006 09:17
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 23 January 2006 08:59
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 January 2006 07:03
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: L. Testut on Mon, 23 January 2006 06:45
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: Paolo Grigis on Mon, 23 January 2006 05:25
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 23 January 2006 01:51
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: David Fanning on Sun, 22 January 2006 15:57
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: Robert Barnett on Sun, 22 January 2006 13:37
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: L. Testut on Sun, 22 January 2006 12:13
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: David Fanning on Sun, 22 January 2006 06:21
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 23 January 2006 14:24
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: JD Smith on Mon, 23 January 2006 10:19
		Re: compile a routine wich inlude a commun By: David Fanning on Mon, 23 January 2006 09:54

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