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Re: IDL as programming language? [message #2706]

Wed, 31 August 1994 08:23

olsen
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Registered: March 1994

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In article 15667@henson.cc.wwu.edu, n9140397@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Michael Hamilton) writes:
> In article <1994Aug28.122441.32497@waikato.ac.nz> abz@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>
>> (v) How 'robust' is IDL as a programming language?
> reply by Henson>
>Other things you should consider: IDL does not, to my knowlege, create
> executable code which you store on disk or which runs independently.
> If you want to share something you wrote with a friend, they have to have
> idl also, and maybe even the same version. Actualy languages like
> C and FORTRAN are much more "portable".
>>
>
portability is relative.......
I can use IDL on all 4 of my main platforms (SUN,SGI, PC(portable), and MAC),
with virtually no changes (set_plot, ....). fortran compilers and c compilers
are not all that standard from platform to platform....
just try and compile the new ImageMagick..........

rc olsen

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		Re: IDL as programming language? By: olsen on Wed, 31 August 1994 08:23
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: n9140397 on Tue, 30 August 1994 16:51
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: shapiro on Mon, 29 August 1994 13:50
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: Geoff.Sobering on Mon, 29 August 1994 11:08
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: thompson on Mon, 29 August 1994 07:19
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: steinhh on Sun, 28 August 1994 04:14
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: scisoft on Mon, 05 September 1994 09:43
		Re: IDL as programming language? By: stl on Thu, 01 September 1994 00:03

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