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From: lbreid@athena.mit.edu (Lynn B Reid)
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Subject: Re: Response to question about PV-WAVE and IDL
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Date: 20 Feb 91 20:26:57 GMT
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Hooray for Ali Bahrami's call against "blatant marketing" by PV~Wave.
I'm a pvwave user, but with no experience of IDL I didn't feel competent
to reply to the original question of "IDL vs PVWAVE".  But Peter Hallett's
reply was strongly couched in marketing bells and whistles terms, none of
which are available on MY lowly system (DECStation).

Not that I'm against PV~Wave -- I think it is a great product, in some
respects.  But I'd also like to cast my vote against marketing.....

-- 
Lynn B. Reid
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA  02139

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