Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!murdoch!fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU!jvb7u From: jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave Subject: Re: IDL or PV-WAVE? Message-ID: <1991Jun13.180649.15747@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 13 Jun 91 18:06:49 GMT References: Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 27 In article bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes: # #Which should we buy? Presumably PV-WAVE has more features, but are #they worth more money? Since they can now diverge, which would you bet #on long term? Personally, I can't recommmend EITHER. They are both inferior to a good object-oriented programming approach! If you have to have the interactive capability (the ONLY advantage these languages have), get Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW), which is more powerful than either of the above and FREE from CERN. In a nutshell, PAW was designed to be used for reducing experimental data. Any type of data, but there is a package designed for High Energy Physics. It has vastly superior memory management, graphics and least squares capability to any interactive language I've ever encountered. I guess it has to be, when a single "shot" of an accelerator produces hundreds of megabytes of data! For more information, send a request to cernlib@cernvm.cern.ch. Jon -- Jon Brinkmann Astronomy Department Internet: jvb7u@Virginia.EDU University of Virginia UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!jvb7u P.O. Box 3818 SPAN/HEPnet: 6654::jvb7u Charlottesville, VA 22903-0818