| Re: IDL 7.0 .... any new functions? [message #56998 is a reply to message #56986] |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Haje Korth writes:
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> At the moment, I find the Eclipse thing confusing and
> getting in the way of doing my work.
I had the same experience with the Eclipse plugin for Fortran95 (photran). I found eclipse
non-intuitive to use. And slow (but that was over a year ago now).
I guess I'm more of an old fart than I thought. I never experienced a serendipitous moment
with eclipse, just frustration since it wasn't giving me any new functionality
(FWIW, the whole "integrated with subversion/cvs" as one reason for using eclipse is lost
on me. Hasn't everyone been using version control software for the last decade or so already?)
> I expect this to
> improve as suggestions from younger users pour in here.
> Meanwhile the iPod my youngest son insisted I HAD to have,
> sits over there on the corner of my desk, unused. I can't
> even remember how to access the menu. Strange things
> happen when I move my fingers across it. Magic! :-(
I explicitly asked my wife *not* to buy me an iPod for birthday/chrissie/whatever. Just
what I need - something else that would encourage muggers on the Metro.
It's official: I'm a curmudgeonly old fart. :o)
>> I believe ITTVIS did the right thing
>> with this move. This step back to clean up an old mess was absolutely
>> necessary. I can definitely hear myself swearing less since eclipse came
>> into my life. :-)
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> Cleaning up noise pollution is a worthy goal. And I applaud
> them for that. But certainly one of the jobs of a software
> company is to fix and improve software. I'd like to see some
> of that, too.
+1.
An official version of a *simple* plotting tool with rubber band box-zoom capability (ala
your ZPLOT, or my WPLOT) would still be a nice addition. It wouldn't be difficult to do
and sometimes a regular ol' hammer is the right tool for the job - not a pneumatic nailer
complete with its own air compressor.
BTW, are there any licensing issues I should be aware of if I commit the entire Coyote
library into our subversion system here? People check out my IDL scripts and a bunch of my
code falls in a heap coz the scripts use various and sundry Coyote IDL programs that are
in my local path, but not in other people's.
cheers,
paulv
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