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Re: IDL vs. PV-WAVE [message #9283 is a reply to message #275]

Thu, 12 June 1997 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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William Connolley writes:

> 2. Widgets seem to be particularly complex, but you probably don't need them.
> As far as I can tell, they are mostly useful for polished-product programs and
> not so useful for research-type work.

Now hold on there just a minute, William! In my humble, professional
opinion I find that people who hold this view (present company excluded,
of course) don't generally know how to write widget programs.
Most of the time they have tried to learn how to do it from the IDL
manuals. When they are shown how easy it really is, they often start
taking the view that widget programs are essential to their research and
they don't know how they worked without them.

On the other hand, those folks who refuse to jump on the bandwagon
sometimes have the last laugh. Look at the COBOL programmers, for
example, laughing all the way to the bank these days. :-)

Cheers,

David

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