| Re: Most Common IDL Programming Errors [message #59731 is a reply to message #59729] |
Wed, 09 April 2008 07:07   |
liamgumley
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Registered: June 2005
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On Apr 9, 2:06 am, Spon <christoph.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Judging by the fact that we've got 11 IDL licences in the building,
> probably 5-15 users in any given week (including at least one *Real*
> computer scientist - with a PhD and everything) and I'm the only one
> who ever seems to use REBIN, REFORM, REVERSE... even READ_BINARY
> instead of OPENR / FSTAT / READU, I'd say some more major errors are:
[stuff deleted]
> FWIW, I'd definitely throw in: SIZE, REFORM, REBIN, TRANSPOSE, WHERE,
> BYTSCL ... and then maybe ARRAY_INDICES; also TV, PLOT, OPLOT & TVSCL
> to show the wealth of keywords they accept.
There are a few books on IDL programming which do a decent job of
describing how to use most of these bread-and-butter procedures and
functions. Check out the usual suspects (D. Fanning, K. Bowman, and
one other guy).
Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/
PS: Thanks to everyone who helped PIP recently surpass 5000 copies in
print.
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