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Re: Which like command for IDL? [message #23078] Fri, 05 January 2001 14:29 Go to previous message
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JD Smith <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> writes:

> I hate to be a one tune band,

It's alright. It's a good note!

[...]

>
> For one, it doesn't need IDL! It uses it's own notion of IDL builtins,
> system library files (the ones in !DIR/lib), and the user catalog it
> scanned. If IDL is running in the shell, it also queries it for all
> routine info. Since I've scanned into my catalog almost everything on
> !PATH (IDLWAVE makes it trivial)

I just went and got the helpfile and then scanned my installation
into my catalog.

Man, you and Carsten are *wizards*.

To paraphrase and line from a nutshell book:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinquishable from well
written emacs lisp package!"

whd
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