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Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 [message #89611 is a reply to message #89610]

Fri, 31 October 2014 15:04

Lajos Foldy
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On Friday, October 31, 2014 10:03:43 PM UTC+1, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I just watched Beau Legeer's new screencast on what is new with IDL 8.4.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_umxrSAEWis
>
> All I can say is, "Wow!" I had no idea so many people were clamoring for
> Big Integers (you know, 2^400, printed on your display), and I plan to
> use the Prime and NextPrime static functions almost daily.
>
> It sure would be fun to be a fly on the wall in the meeting in which
> customer requests were prioritized for the next version of IDL. I have a
> feeling I would be absolutely shocked at how out of touch I am with the
> tools programmers need to do their jobs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

There are priorities. The parallel processing API for IDL 8.4 was thrown out. BigInt is much more important.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/bEr8Bh5 iLrI/60o6nJRNGdkJ

regards,
Lajos

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		What's New in IDL 8.4 By: David Fanning on Fri, 31 October 2014 14:03
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: Lajos Foldy on Fri, 31 October 2014 15:04
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: David Fanning on Fri, 31 October 2014 15:13
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: Lajos Foldy on Fri, 31 October 2014 15:43
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: David Fanning on Fri, 31 October 2014 16:08
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: markb77 on Sat, 01 November 2014 04:11
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: Karl[1] on Sun, 02 November 2014 07:34
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: David Fanning on Sun, 02 November 2014 08:04
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: Fabzi on Sun, 02 November 2014 10:31
		Re: What's New in IDL 8.4 By: David Fanning on Sun, 02 November 2014 10:44
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