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Re: Philosophical Scaling Question [message #51736 is a reply to message #51605]

Mon, 04 December 2006 11:13

Braedley
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Registered: September 2006

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David Fanning wrote:
> Brian Larsen writes:
>
>> When will we see this book, seems my grant could use sending some money
>> your way? Is it 3rd edition of IDL Programming Techniques or something
>> different.
>
> We'll probably never see it. :-(
>
> At the moment my thinking is that the 3rd Edition will weigh
> in at about 15 pounds if I put into it everything I want to
> put into it. I'm pretty sure no one will read the damn thing.
>
> So I've been thinking about a slimmer volume entitled
> "Interactive IDL: What You Can Still Do at a Command
> Line With the Dopey Old Direct Graphics". I'm going
> to bet a fair bit of money this will *still* sell like
> hotcakes. :-)
>
> 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. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Heh, I'd buy that 15 pound tome. This despite the fact that I still
haven't read the last 5 chapters (7 months after the fact) of edition
1. Probably something I should have done before embarking on
maintaining a beast of a widget program without much documentation, but
what's done is done. Your book, website, and programs have saved me
many headaches over the past several months.

Braedley

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		Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 December 2006 08:15
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 December 2006 11:57
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: news.qwest.net on Tue, 05 December 2006 11:37
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 05 December 2006 13:49
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Tue, 05 December 2006 07:34
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 05 December 2006 07:12
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 December 2006 11:21
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Braedley on Mon, 04 December 2006 11:13
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 December 2006 10:45
		Re: Philosophical Scaling Question By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 04 December 2006 10:30

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