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Re: Migrate away from idl? [message #68849 is a reply to message #68681] Tue, 24 November 2009 01:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
lecacheux.alain is currently offline  lecacheux.alain
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> Any even more disconcerting is the fact I am not alone.
> Today, completely unprompted by me, a colleague who I
> consider a die-hard IDL user told me she was thinking
> about learning Python so she could ditch partial solutions
> like IDL and Perl. If we can figure out a way to use proj.4
> and GDAL to do our map projections, we will probably both
> dump IDL.
>
I am not a mapping specialist, but proj.4 and GDAL are software
libraries both distributed in C or JAVA. What is the problem
for accessing them from IDL ? Why Perl ?
In other words, is actually IDL be lacking in tools for
accessing external libraries ?
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