| Any cross-platform IDL alternatives? [message #27168] |
Wed, 10 October 2001 13:19  |
Eric Williams
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Registered: April 1997
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Since RSI/Kodak is killing IDL for the Mac (and others) I am wondering if
anyone has suggestions for trying out some other cross-platform software. I
am not really worried too much about Windows but the Mac/*nix world is where
I work. We use IDL mostly for processing astronomical data and writing
procedures to play with the data visually. So a tool with a simple language
and good graphing capabilities is what we really need.
BTW, if anyone from RSI cares, I only have two Mac licenses but I have
brought 31 Solaris licenses to my campus since coming here, with plenty more
potential on the horizon. Once I have an alternative tool I will be
recommending against purchasing anymore licenses and dropping maintenance.
Too bad because I have been a huge evangelist for IDL over the years. I have
turned more than 50 students and scientists onto IDL in the last few years
which has resulted in most likely hundreds of licenses if not many more as
they have moved onto other sites. That will all stop now and I will try to
do the opposite, and probably save some money too.
Bye bye IDL, it WAS great...
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Eric
wilersh@snet.net
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