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Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction [message #63707 is a reply to message #63650]

Tue, 18 November 2008 07:52

Craig Markwardt
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On Nov 18, 8:21 am, Mirko <Mirko.Vuko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 18, 12:18 am, Craig Markwardt <cbmarkwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 16, 11:40 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>>> I guess my point is this. There are a lot of people,
>>> myself included, who use and are extremely happy with
>>> what I have come to think of as IDL's "old" features.
>>> Line plots, image display, good ol' direct graphics,
>>> sent to a PostScript file for nice output. We could
>>> be made happy and a LOT less cynical, I think, if
>>> along with the bright new gewgaws someone threw in a
>>> lagniappe of a PostScript device that worked the way
>>> it was suppose to work in this day and age.
>
>> Yep, a better postscript driver would be nice. Actually I was
>> developing a new device driver to replace X/Postscript, but... it was
>> hard!
>
> I don't even upgrade my IDL. That is how exciting I find the new
> releases.
>
> But that may point to my age. Do the younger folks actually
> appreciate the new features more?

People apparently joke about me using old versions of IDL [*]. The
truth is, when I have a version that works, I stick with it. Nothing
frustrates me more than an application that wants to self-update
itself every day.

New features in IDL are fairly useless to me, because they are *new*.
My stuff often needs to run on IDL 5.x, but also IDL 7.x. It would be
not-so-useful to take advantage of new features in that kind of
environment. And is object graphics really that useful anyway?

Craig

[*] - by people, I mean David Fanning. Anyway, I usually run IDL 6.3
these days which is not too ancient.

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		Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: David Fanning on Sun, 16 November 2008 08:40
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 08:08
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 18 November 2008 07:52
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Mirko.Vukovic[1] on Tue, 18 November 2008 05:21
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 17 November 2008 21:18
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 17 November 2008 07:22
		Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction By: pgrigis on Mon, 17 November 2008 07:57

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