| Re: IDL 7.0 .... any new functions? [message #57131 is a reply to message #57075] |
Sat, 01 December 2007 10:39  |
MarioIncandenza
Messages: 231
Registered: February 2005
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Fred,
I sympathize with your ennui. The key here is that scientific
programmers, such as yourself and roughly 3/4 of this list, are not
enough of a revenue source to drive development of IDL. Development is
driven by application developers, who (I can only assume) pay more for
their licenses than we do :)
But as long as IDL doesn't *lose* functionality, I'll (tell my boss
to) keep paying the tab. And that's not an idly posed hypothetical,
either. Consider the case of ESRI. When ESRI decided application
developers were more important than researchers, they:
- obsoleted a working macro language;
- forced all scripting into an object-oriented framework with
100s of lines of overhead for simple tasks;
- walked away from Unix systems entirely (!)
Result: Many things I used to do in Arc, I now do-- in IDL. Which is
not always well-suited to the task.
Underneath the mountain, with pick and shovel,
--Edward H.
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