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Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:11:58 +0100,
Niclas H M Tylli <niclas.tylli.ZERO@SPAM.ethz.ch> wrote:
>Make that thirteen. However, to put it the other way around, the amount of
>traffic on a group probably reflects the number people concerned with the topic.
>Perhaps there really aren't that many IDL users out there... A thought which
>leads me to the question: Is there really any reason to use IDL instead of, for
>instance, Matlab? I like IDL, but that is only because I happened to begin using
>IDL.
Perhaps it reflects the fact that IDL is so wondefully written and
documented that nobody has any questions to ask.
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Colin Rosenthal
Astrophysics Institute
University of Oslo