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Re: Any interest in an IDL to Python interface? [message #59003 is a reply to message #58997]

Thu, 28 February 2008 09:13

R.Bauer
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Jason Ferrara schrieb:
> We're thinking of coming out with product that acts as a bridge
> between IDL and Python, and are trying to get an idea of how much of a
> demand there is for this sort of thing.

Hi

it could be nice if something like that is added for all supported OS
versions not only for windows.

python has lots of interesting libraries and is used as scripting
language in many programs (OpenOffice.org, Blender, Maya, PyMOL, Gimp, etc.)

The problem will be the price or do you have considered to share it free
of charge?

And another question has to be discussed too. What of idl will be left
over if such a powerful programming language will be added to idl.
For example this will give us the possibility to use QT4 for widgets. Or
we never again do get "the sky is falling down miracle" because of the
decimal data type. Or we can use pythons standalone webserver or lots of
math libraries free of charge.

One has to ask himself if an idl program is mostly based on python
modules why he has to use idl and does not do the whole job in python
then? There are not much differences between both languages.

How would the development of idl been continued if we as user could
always use other libs?

cheers
Reimar

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		Re: Any interest in an IDL to Python interface? By: rkombiyil on Fri, 29 February 2008 18:49
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		Re: Any interest in an IDL to Python interface? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 28 February 2008 09:13
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