Re: google search postings

[Reimar Bauer <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan wrote:
> 
> Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > did someone have more experience with this newsgroup search machine.
> > In the past I have often used dejanews. Are there differences between
> > booth.
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=plot&as_ugroup=comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> 
> Ahh... Thanks for pointing this out.. Gave me a chance to go back to the
> "really old days", and I found an old "IDL wish list" I wrote in 1995 (along
> the lines of the "top ten wishes for IDL in the next release"):
> 
> 1. Pointers that work like *real* pointers (Check!)
> 2. A coherent way of deciding the result dimensions in indexed operations
>    (nope!)
> 3. Possibility of Macros (nope!)

I would say (Check!). If you are using idlde you can use idl macros.
I have some written e.g. export_html,%s,name=%_'%s%_'

> 4. Possibility of having widget applications + command line available
>    at the same time (like the help facility) (check - well, almost, they
>    don't work without retalls)
> 5. Different brackets for array subscripts and function calls (check!)
> 6. A portable pseudo-language to produce true *compiled* subroutines
>    (nope)
> 
> So, 2 1/2 out of 6 isn't that bad.. David, do you do recycling?
> 
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