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Re: Migrate away from idl? [message #68767 is a reply to message #68669]

Thu, 19 November 2009 07:43

Nikola
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> The best you can say about IDL these days is that it isn't bad.
> I can see why that's not generating a fanatical following.
>

I'd say it's a bit more than that. Of course new things will come from
time to
time but the ultimate value of IDL is the IDL community and amount of
work that
has been made to built numerous useful libraries available today. In
my field -
solar physics - there is a suite of routines called solarsoft that
integrates
hundreds of necessary functions for a range of solar instruments and
telescopes.
I wouldn't ever trade that for nicer fonts, interactive plots or any
similar
cosmetics. :)

Actually, beside IDL I use only two more things in my work - Fortran/C
for
numerics and TecPlot/ParaView for 3D visualization (though there is
also IDL
based Vapor for that).

Cheers,

Nikola

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		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 November 2009 06:26
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 19 November 2009 04:25
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Mort Canty on Thu, 19 November 2009 01:41
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Ivan Zimine on Wed, 18 November 2009 19:36
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: penteado on Wed, 18 November 2009 16:58
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 18 November 2009 15:56
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 19 November 2009 11:04
		Re: Migrate away from idl? By: Nikola on Thu, 19 November 2009 07:43

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