What about citing PDL? Lots of publications acknowledging the use of PDL should help against IDL when students have to make a choice. I am sure PDL must have triggered many new software techniques.
I always acknowledge the use of PDL, but have no proper reference for it. Cheers, Simon. Karl Glazebrook writes: > This is true but being in a minority can be advantageous, I feel that > I know how to use much more powerful tools than my colleagues and > this gives me a powerful edge in getting things done faster. > > I often look amazed at how inefficiently some people try to do things > in packages like IRAF (which only those in astro will understand the > reference). > > That said I WOULD like to see wider adoption rather than feel like > some archmage. A linux binary distro would help a lot. We could model > the default installation set on my Mac one. > > Any volunteers? > > > On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:14 PM, David Jacobowitz wrote: > > > A third issue: Perl. I love it, you love it, but alas, we may be in > > (a shrinking) minority. > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
