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Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! [message #82256 is a reply to message #82255]

Mon, 26 November 2012 06:14

Jeremy Bailin
Messages: 618
Registered: April 2008

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On 11/25/12 1:18 PM, lefsky@gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 25, 9:36 am, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I want to report a sneaky development I just discovered by
>> the so-called "computer scientists" at ExelisVis that has
>> the potential to undermine everything we hold dear about
>> IDL. I refer, of course, to modifications in the IDL 8.2
>> documentation that changes the reading of the font tables
>> from octal to simple decimal numbers! What the ...!?
>>
>> Don't these people realize this is the only place left
>> in the world where it is possible to still run into this
>> endangered species? Removing these octal tables is an
>> outrage and will impoverish untold generations of IDL
>> programmers in the future. Not to mention making it easy
>> for programming rift-raft to figure out how to get the
>> font character they are looking for. What's the point
>> of having experts now!?
>>
>> Please join me in signing the petition below to get the
>> company to reverse this disastrous decision to make the
>> font tables understandable. We need to restore
>> the integrity and purpose of this IDL newsgroup to
>> explain the obscure to the uninitiated. Anything less
>> is completely unacceptable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Coyote
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-Jeremy.

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		Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! By: David Fanning on Mon, 26 November 2012 06:31
		Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 26 November 2012 06:26
		Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! By: Jeremy Bailin on Mon, 26 November 2012 06:14
		Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! By: David Fanning on Sun, 25 November 2012 11:01
		Re: Font Outrage - Restore the Octal! By: lefsky@gmail.com on Sun, 25 November 2012 10:18

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