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Re: IMSL coming to IDL [message #49960 is a reply to message #49959] Fri, 25 August 2006 05:38 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Haje Korth is currently offline  Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997
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Ol'Gramps,
thanks for the anecdote from the life of an IDL professional. :-)
Although I have been using IDL from the very beginning of it's history,
I cared little back then about the politics behind the product. I
appreciate the insight.

Haje


David Fanning wrote:
> Haje Korth writes:
>
>> Deja vu? Am I missing something here???
>
> Guess you're too young to have heard about this, Haje.
> Here, come sit on my knee, and ol' Gramps will tell
> you a story.
>
> Years and years ago, well before you were born probably,
> I had a mystical experience. I had quit my job--again--and
> had given my wife some cock and bull story about wanting
> to "find myself" or "follow my bliss" or whatever it was
> that was fashionable in those days. Basically, I was more
> or less unhappy with everything I had ever done and was
> looking for something more meaningful to do.
>
> I had this strong urge to call one of my friends at RSI
> and ask if they had ever thought of offering IDL training
> classes to their customers.
>
> "No, hell no. Our customers don't need training classes,"
> my friend said. "But you better get your ass down here tomorrow
> because we are talking to someone about a deal and you might
> be interested in it."
>
> I ran down there in the morning. They were talking to IMSL
> about creating a product called IDL-IMSL. The folks were from
> Houston and didn't know anything at all about IDL. The deal was
> done that morning, and the folks asked me to fly down to Houston
> two days later with a proposal for creating an IDL-IMSL training
> course.
>
> I entered the room with a single sheet of paper and a figure
> on it I had spent the whole flight down to Houston regretting.
> I was asking for about twice a much money as I had ever made
> in my life.
>
> The meeting started, and it wasn't long before it was pretty
> clear that there was--at that time anyway--about one person
> in the world who could do the job they wanted done, and he was
> sitting across from the suits with a shit-eating grin on his
> face. I slid that proposal across the desk to the suits, and
> they didn't even flinch.
>
> The rest, as they say, is history. I'll show you the IDL-IMSL
> video sometime. I still have it around here somewhere. I've been
> waiting all these year just to show to the grandkids :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. (Opata Indian saying, meaning "Perhaps thou
> speakest truth.")

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