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Re: Introducing FL [message #48264 is a reply to message #48144]

Mon, 03 April 2006 21:28

Y.T.
Messages: 25
Registered: December 2004

Junior Member

Craig Markwardt wrote:
[good stuff mercilessly snipped]
>
> True, but that's kind of my point. *If* we could easily translate all
> our IDL code to Python (say), we'd have the immediate benefit of a
> stable and supported runtime environment, where the wheel had already

You're aware of PyDL, aren't you?

Speaking only for myself, I write stuff in IDL because I know IDL.
That's all. That's where my "inertia" comes from. A converter that
would produce perfect python from my IDL routines would be worthless to
me.

At my place of employ I can get Matlab for free (i.e. site-license) but
I'd be horribly worthless with Matlab because I'd be spending my time
re-re-relearning when and where to place a comma or a semicolon and
what was the syntax for a linear fit again? So I use GDL, because that
allows me to get something *done*. As in *now*.

(I work for a federally funded research facility and you, the
tax-payer, are expending my salary. Do you really think you're getting
your money's worth out of the deal if I spend my time learning this
years fad-language?)

cordially

Y.T.

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[Message index]

		Introducing FL By: FL on Sat, 01 April 2006 06:44
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Thu, 06 April 2006 09:50
		Re: Introducing FL By: Maurizio Tomasi on Thu, 06 April 2006 00:14
		Re: Introducing FL By: George N. White III on Tue, 04 April 2006 16:28
		Re: Introducing FL By: JD Smith on Tue, 04 April 2006 12:38
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:45
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:41
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:21
		Re: Introducing FL By: mmiller3 on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:16
		Re: Introducing FL By: mmiller3 on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:08
		Re: Introducing FL By: mmiller3 on Tue, 04 April 2006 08:07
		Re: Introducing FL By: Ken Mankoff on Tue, 04 April 2006 07:33
		Re: Introducing FL By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 04 April 2006 06:53
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Tue, 04 April 2006 06:22
		Re: Introducing FL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 04 April 2006 05:23
		Re: Introducing FL By: Ben Panter on Tue, 04 April 2006 03:13
		Re: Introducing FL By: Y.T. on Mon, 03 April 2006 21:28
		Re: Introducing FL By: Richard French on Mon, 03 April 2006 20:51
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 03 April 2006 19:17
		Re: Introducing FL By: b_gom on Mon, 03 April 2006 14:59
		Re: Introducing FL By: JD Smith on Mon, 03 April 2006 13:29
		Re: Introducing FL By: Foldy Lajos on Mon, 03 April 2006 11:33
		Re: Introducing FL By: news.qwest.net on Mon, 03 April 2006 09:19
		Re: Introducing FL By: FL on Sun, 02 April 2006 12:33
		Re: Introducing FL By: biophys on Sun, 02 April 2006 12:31
		Re: Introducing FL By: biophys on Sun, 02 April 2006 12:15
		Re: Introducing FL By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 02 April 2006 11:09

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