| Re: IDL UNIX->PC code compatability [message #9345] |
Fri, 20 June 1997 00:00  |
mgs
Messages: 144
Registered: March 1995
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In article <MPG.e13540358c83a399896b6@news.frii.com>, davidf@dfanning.com
(David Fanning) wrote:
> Scott Gennari writes:
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>> It's just too bad an IDL/ENVI license will cost more than the PC. That
>> seems warped to me.
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> Even a 266 MHz PII is just a doorstop without software. Seems to
> me that a large part of the value of any system is the software
> you put on it. The question is, do you save $1500 of time and
> effort using IDL as opposed to doing whatever it is you do some
> other way. Maybe you could write C programs. How much time and
> effort do you think it would take you to learn to write your
> programs in Visual C++? In my situation, I would probably starve
> before I figured it out. Makes IDL look like a bargain, at least
> to me.
I had a short contract last year writing some C++. First I was told to use
any language I wanted (including PV-WAVE), so I wrote it in Bourne Shell. I
finished in a week. Then they said it had to be written in C++. So a month
later I had mimicked my shell program in C++. No additional functionality
(except being faster - which was not a concern/priority). Not to mention
the shell was free and the C++ environment was over $2K.
Same company, previous year, different project: I pushed for the purchase
of ENVI for the project. The project didn't have the money for it - all
software purchases were on hold. Of course many of the built-in ENVI
functions had to be recreated in IDL and/or C++. At the cost of probably
$30K, as opposed to $6K.
Regardless of the package, prices get lost in the noise very quickly when
you consider the time savings.
--
Mike Schienle Interactive Visuals
mgs@sd.cybernex.net http://ww2.sd.cybernex.net/~mgs/
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