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Re: David Fanning's IDL Programming Techniques Book [message #10969]

Thu, 29 January 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Mirko Vukovic (mirko_vukovic@notes.mrc.sony.com) writes:

> I had a harrowing realization after going through the book. About 80% of
> the stuff in the book was familiar to me, 20% not. Now, David says, that
> the book teaches you about 80% of the stuff you need to know about IDL.
> Now, I imagine he knows about 80% of all the IDL stuff. That means that
> _I_ know only about .8^3 of IDL stuff, or about 50%.
>
> Wish I hadn't bought the thing :-). Ignorance is bliss.

What with all the heavy mathematical traffic on this newsgroup
lately, I've been thinking that my personal knowledge of IDL is
probably about 50%. Which really puts *your* knowledge at ...

Oh, never mind. Ignorance IS bliss. :-)

Cheers,

David

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Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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