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Other IDL / Mac advantages [message #27517]

Wed, 24 October 2001 01:16

Wolf Schweitzer
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Registered: October 2001

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To me, there is a misconception that some people assume we are using
Macs because of their "cutsy" interface and that can be "over" now.

An important advantage for IDL on Macintosh is its ability to do
parameter-passing with Applescript. In order to understand the
usefulness of that you need to know what other applications also do
Applescript on a Mac OS.

Neither IDL nor Applescript are easy to understand for the average teeny
surfing the web maybe wanting to do "some 3D", they are great and
efficient tools once you start building some way of hierarchical data
storage system. I am currently working on some graphical information
from medical scan images, and the progress you can make within useful
time with these programming languages, passing results directly into
other applications, is amazing and, also, important.

Not that this would be completely impossible on other platforms - it is
just much easier to program on a higher level of abstraction. It is one
whole dimension more elegant on Mac OS and Applescript.

But people do not see that aspect. Generally not. It's a "high
abstraction advantage blindness".

As Applescript would not sell without Mac OS and we are all happy it's
also part of Mac OS X, I think that IDL would need to be shipped with
Mac OS X - it is just an essential ingredient for the scientific
Macintosh community.

Wolf Schweitzer
Bern, Switzerland

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