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Re: Musing on IDL's Future Direction [message #63717 is a reply to message #63650]

Tue, 18 November 2008 05:21

Mirko.Vukovic[1]
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Registered: August 2007

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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?

Mirko

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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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