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Re: IDL, Mathematica, Matlab [message #8881 is a reply to message #8822]

Thu, 01 May 1997 00:00

mlambert
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Registered: May 1997

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I (like wei-chen lin) am also interested in a comparison of MatLab and
Interactive Data Language (IDL). Does anyone know of such a comparison?

William Thompson (thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Philippe Coujoulou <pcoujoul@eur.ericsson.se> writes:

: >IDL is not a programming language. It is for the description of
: >interfaces, i.e. you can use it to make different OO languages
: >interwork.

: >For exemple, you can write a client with java and a server with C++. And
: >you specify the interface of your C++ objects with IDL, so that your
: >java client can call them (using IDL).

: >wei-chen lin wrote:
: >>
: >> Hi,
: >>
: >> I am new to IDL and am wondering what the strength and weakness
: >> of IDL are, in comparison with Mathmatica and Matlab. Does someone have
: >> some insight?
: >>
: >> Thanks
: >>
: >> Wei C. Lin

: I think there's probably some confusion here about what IDL is being referred
: to. I believe that Wei C. Lin was asking about the Interactive Data Language
: from Research Systems Incorporated. The correct newsgroup for that is
: comp.lang.idl-pvwave.

: William Thompson

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		IDL, Mathematica, Matlab By: Wei C. Lin on Fri, 25 April 1997 00:00
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		Re: IDL, Mathematica, Matlab By: mlambert on Thu, 01 May 1997 00:00

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