Re: It costs how much?!!?!

["J.D. Smith" <jdsmith(at)astro.cornell.edu>]

"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
> 
> "J.D. Smith" wrote:
> >
> > but at
> > least all of the plotting, visualization, etc. is there.
> 
> I must confess that these items are the ones of the least appeal to me
> personally, despite that I like IDL more than any other tool I use. For
> displaying purposes (other than large images), there are much better,
> interactive programs, Igor Pro not being the last.

I too head for more familiar pastures when setting up some data for
plotting in a publication... the arcane and quirky SM, formerly
SuperMongo, known only to grumpy astronomers.  It has whips and chains
in it's icon.  But I suppose I was obliquely referring to IDL's 3-d
visualization capabilities.

jd