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Re: The Secret Widget Manual and IDL V5 [message #9151]

Wed, 11 June 1997 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Jim O'Connor writes:

> David:
>
> How applicable will your book be to those of us who use PV-Wave? I
> imagine the basic language portions will be the same, but I don't have
> a good feel for how much the two products have diverged since 9/90.
>
> I plan on buying your book regardless of the degree of overlap, but it
> would be ideal if the book showed both the Wave and the IDL way of
> doing things.

I think the topics in my first book will be very applicable to
PV-Wave. (To tell you the truth, I often use PV-Wave documentation
to figure out what is going on in IDL!) My original goal was to
create separate books for IDL and PV-Wave users. But I have been so
busy that I really have not had the time to re-learn PV-Wave the
way I need to if I am going to write sensibly about it. My
immediate goal now is to just get the IDL book finished and out
there. If you are really going to buy a copy I have hope that
the revenue might be enough to buy me some leisure time to
write a PV-Wave book. :-)

In the perfect world, I would have enough income from teaching
IDL/PV-Wave classes that I could produce training materials
full-time. We will see...

Thanks for signing up as my first customer. I'll let you
know ASAP.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Customizable IDL Programming Courses
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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IDL 5 Reports: http://www.dfanning.com/documents/anomaly5.html

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