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Re: Good programming practices and commercial development with IDL [message #73081 is a reply to message #73080] Fri, 22 October 2010 07:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Paul Van Delst[1] is currently offline  Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
>
>> If I were building a commercial application, I would
>> want it to *look* like a commercial application. So,
>> if I were doing this, I'd make sure the damn thing ran
>> on Windows computers. You put a Motif application on
>> a Macintosh and you are asking for ridicule.
>
> I forgot to mention that I just heard last night
> about a VERY big IDL shop that is migrating their
> very large IDL application to JAVA, primarily
> because of the better GUI interface. Most of their
> customers use Linux and Mac computers. That is
> not a good sign. :-(

There are IDL shops? All that comes to mind are either guvmint entities (e.g. NASA, NOAA and the like) or their
associated contractors.

I've obviously been living in DC for too long.... unfortunately one tends to develop a Ptolemaic view of the world
'round here. :o) (Or should I emote :o( ?)

cheers,

paulv

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