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Re: Object based/oriented IDL ? Ever likely ? [message #6098 is a reply to message #5975]

Fri, 22 March 1996 00:00

kspencer
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Registered: December 1993

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Ken Knighton <knighton@gav.gat.com> writes:

> IDL is not an OOL, but it does have a number of features that
> make it possible to do things traditionally supported by
> OOLs although perhaps not with the same elegance:

This was worth reading, thanks.

> It is unfortunate that some of IDL's truly powerful features tend to
> be hidden or unknown to the majority of users. It is also unfortunate
> that RSI doesn't use them in most of the code they supply with IDL.
> It would be nice to have a bunch of tools supplied with IDL that were
> written in IDL using excellent software engineering practices and
> the powerful techniques that are already available in the language.
> That way, users would have examples to go by when creating their own
> cool software.

Would you give some examples of the "powerful features" you're talking
about? I'm curious, and want to find out if there's anything I'm
missing.

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Kevin Spencer
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kspencer@p300.cpl.uiuc.edu / kspencer@psych.uiuc.edu
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		Object based/oriented IDL ? Ever likely ? By: julien on Wed, 20 March 1996 00:00
		Re: Object based/oriented IDL ? Ever likely ? By: ROsborn on Tue, 19 March 1996 00:00
		Re: Object based/oriented IDL ? Ever likely ? By: Ken Knighton on Tue, 26 March 1996 00:00
		Re: Object based/oriented IDL ? Ever likely ? By: kspencer on Fri, 22 March 1996 00:00

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