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Re: IDL in Scientific Communication and Visualization [message #81629 is a reply to message #81593]

Fri, 05 October 2012 01:20

Alexandra Laeng
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Registered: July 2011

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> How about this question?
> What do you think is the
> most useful feature of IDL?

Coyote Library, if I dare to call it feature. :)

On more technical side - the arrays handling is the most useful feature for me. When you work with atmospheric vertical profiles from satellites, you are handling about 1 000 - 700 000 float arrays of length 30-10 per day of data. When you want to do some meaningful statistics on it, like climatology where you are handling several years of data, IDL is way more handy than Matlab. In Matlab, in order to achieve the comparable speed of arrays handling, you have to write Mex functions, while in IDL it is all build-in.

Alex

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		IDL in Scientific Communication and Visualization By: David Fanning on Tue, 02 October 2012 07:22
		Re: IDL in Scientific Communication and Visualization By: Alexandra Laeng on Fri, 05 October 2012 01:20
		Re: IDL in Scientific Communication and Visualization By: David Fanning on Thu, 04 October 2012 15:39
		Re: IDL in Scientific Communication and Visualization By: Alexandra Laeng on Thu, 04 October 2012 14:25

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