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Re: Interesting article in Nature [message #83022 is a reply to message #83021]

Thu, 31 January 2013 07:15

Mark Piper
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On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:24:09 PM UTC-7, Paulo Penteado wrote:
> It is not everyday that choosing IDL over other languages gets
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> discussed in Nature:
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>
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> "The algorithms to be incorporated were varied, and included codes for
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> estimating snow coverage, grain size and absorption of solar radiation
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> by dust and black carbon. They had been written in IDL, a specialized
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> programming language used by many researchers. Geographers, remote
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> sensing experts and software programmers contributed.
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> Most computer scientists would assume that such a system would take
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> years, not weeks, to develop. The algorithms would presumably have to
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> be rewritten in a standard language such as C++, Java or Python, or
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> one that could run on a fast computer system or infrastructure, such
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> as Google’s MapReduce model.
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> But, in my experience, there is no need to rewrite scientific
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> algorithms for bigdata systems. Rewriting only increases the barriers
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> to communication between scientists and computer engineers. Rewriting
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> can also introduce costly errors."
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> From
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> http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/493473a

Thank you, Paulo, for linking to this article. I love to post articles such as this internally at VIS to try to help people understand how and why IDL is important to us who use it.

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		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: penteado on Thu, 31 January 2013 13:26
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Russell Ryan on Thu, 31 January 2013 07:21
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Mark Piper on Thu, 31 January 2013 07:15
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Mark Piper on Thu, 31 January 2013 06:56
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 31 January 2013 02:33
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Fabzi on Thu, 31 January 2013 01:38
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