D'oh! Sorry, I just assumed it was *the* IDL. Oops. On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]> wrote:
> Heh. You had me going there! IDL in this case appears not to be the > Interactive Data "Language" most scientists know and hate, it's Interface > Design Language, which is entirely different (and probably a lot more > powerful)... :-) > > Cheers, > Craig > > > On Sep 9, 2014, at 7:19 PM, David Mertens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Apparently, there's an IDL -> Perl translator written in Marpa: > https://metacpan.org/release/MarpaX-Languages-IDL-AST > > If you've never heard of Marpa, it is a fancy parser that's supposed to be > super theoretical (and performance) awesome. I have yet to dive in myself, > but I like the idea. > > David > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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