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- Path: sparky!uunet!highlite!alan
- From: alan@highlite.uucp (Alan McConnell)
- Subject: Re: Need info on "IDL" a product of Research Systems Inc.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.132554.16439@highlite.uucp>
- Organization: Gotham Communications Research
- References: <1992Jul22.224218.10390@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:25:54 GMT
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- bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
-
- > I've been told to investigate a product called "IDL" which is a
- >graphical user interface tool for scientific/engineering users. At this
- >point I don't know anything else about it. (Even how to contact the
- >vendor.) Contact information and candid reviews would be appreciated.
-
- > Thanks,
- > Bill Bogstad
- Many scientists and graphics-type folk at Goddard Space Flight
- Center, where I work, use IDL and swear by it(not _at_ it). I've
- used it a little, and it does quite nicely what you tell it to
- do. You must put up with a some old-fashioned Fortran-like
- syntax.
- Alan McConnell
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