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From: steve@bat.lle.rochester.edu (Steve Swales)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
Subject: Re: Difference between IDL and PV-WAVE Explained
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Date: 17 Jul 90 12:51:04 GMT
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In article <5944@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> gotwols@warper.jhuapl.edu (Bruce Gotwols) writes:
>There is something very strange about the fact that most users of PV-Wave
>are unaware that they are using a product which 
>might be classified as a shell that sits on top of IDL.
and:
>I must admit that I was not 
>pleased that neither the PVWAVE salesman nor the PVWAVE manuals (at least at 
>that time) admitted that their product was built on top of the IDL language.

I have heard (from an informed source) that in fact it was stipulated
by RSI in their license to PV that the relationship NOT be revealed.
This is indeed strange, IMHO, like C++ trying to deny relationship to
C (or vice versa). The idea, as I was told, is that RSI does not want
to be bothered by PV-WAVE customers since they already have there own
base of IDL people. While I can understand this desire, I don't think
that this stipulation was the way to go, and in fact, the whole thing
seems kind of paranoid, if true. Anyone know the true facts?

>I guess that's one nice benefit that will come out of this new combined 
>newsgroup, a bit of information exchange between users of both products.

Yup. In fact, the whole point of putting pvwave in the name was to let
the PV-WAVE people know that the IDL people were out there (and vice
versa), and worth talking to.

-steve
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