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Re: Interesting Rant [message #51306 is a reply to message #51305]

Tue, 14 November 2006 15:25

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Someone sent me a link to this interesting IDL rant this morning:
>
> http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/07/sstvinc2/research/st upid.html
>
> This is what happens, I suppose, when the language
> you are using is older than you are. Very little
> historical perspective. But it may go a little way
> towards explaining why people coming out of college
> seem to prefer Matlab by a large margin.
>
> I disagree with much of what he has to say, but I
> can't tell whether this is because I am old enough
> to remember what things were like *before* IDL, or
> whether I've just become inured over the years. :-(

His point about colum-major ordering proves that he's not familiar with
Fortran. However, I'm not personally familiar with any languages other
than IDL and Fortran that handle it that way; does anyone else know of
any?

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		Re: Interesting Rant By: Braedley on Wed, 15 November 2006 07:47
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Jo Klein on Wed, 15 November 2006 07:20
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Maarten[1] on Wed, 15 November 2006 07:17
		Re: Interesting Rant By: K. Bowman on Wed, 15 November 2006 06:47
		Re: Interesting Rant By: greg michael on Wed, 15 November 2006 07:03
		Re: Interesting Rant By: David Fanning on Wed, 15 November 2006 06:10
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Maarten[1] on Wed, 15 November 2006 05:25
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Robbie on Tue, 14 November 2006 17:13
		Re: Interesting Rant By: James Kuyper on Tue, 14 November 2006 15:25
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Richard Edgar on Tue, 14 November 2006 11:13
		Re: Interesting Rant By: David Fanning on Tue, 14 November 2006 11:09
		Re: Interesting Rant By: news.qwest.net on Tue, 14 November 2006 10:56
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 14 November 2006 10:36
		Re: Interesting Rant By: David Fanning on Wed, 15 November 2006 10:44
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Earl F. Glynn on Wed, 15 November 2006 09:19
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 16 November 2006 08:02
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Earl F. Glynn on Wed, 15 November 2006 09:07
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Jeff Hester on Sat, 18 November 2006 13:42
		Re: Interesting Rant By: fburton on Wed, 15 November 2006 10:24
		Re: Interesting Rant By: Paolo Grigis on Wed, 15 November 2006 09:02

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