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Re: IDL books for beginners [message #74614 is a reply to message #74577]

Thu, 27 January 2011 05:55

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Peter Clinch writes:

> Just use that neat IDL "TV" command... how could there be any problems? ;-)

OK, I admit, I think TVSCL *and* TV should be banished
from the face of the Earth.

When I was traveling in Africa several years ago, one
of the African graduate students I was working with
explained to me how the educational system in his
country, established by the French colonial powers,
wasn't so much interested in educating young Africans
as it was in giving them what *appeared* to be an education.
The purpose, he explained to me, was actually to make
sure, with the rote learning methods, the calcified
doctrines, etc., to keep the Africans docile and dependent.

The TV command is *exactly* like that. Libérez les personnes! :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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