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I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand times more: when showing a language... Show. Me. The Code. I had to click through 5(!) links before I saw any c
by mcluck 4y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand times more: when showing a language...
Show. Me. The Code.
I had to click through 5(!) links before I saw any code and those links were not terribly intuitive. No "getting started", no "tutorial", nothing. It seems like an interesting language but it baffles me how many language designers and implementers seem to hide the very code that they aim to use.
Here is the first bit of code I could find: https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/docs/bubbleplots.html https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/docs/bubbleplots.html
- m463 4y agoshare the resulting link!
- mcluck 4y agoSure thing. Edited my original post
- 0des 4y agoits actually pretty decent syntax. I wonder why they wouldnt put it more front and center?
- necubi 4y agoYou'd only be looking at this because you already know you need to use IDL and want an open-source implementation. Unless you have a hard requirement to use it (like your data is in an IDL data format, or you rely on IDL libraries) there is no reason you would choose to over R, Python, or Julia.
- Rygian 4y agoIf you remove the loitering '$' at line ends, and replace ';' for comments with '#,' this would pass as valid Python.
- jhgb 4y agoIs it really a language, though? It seems simply like an implementation of an existing language. If I make a new C compiler, you probably won't ask me for example inputs for it.
- mcluck 4y agoYes but if you go to the website for the original language then 5 links shrinks to 4. That's still 4 too many
- mro_name 4y agoyes, prose for the enlightened. That annoys me, unenlightened as I am, and keeps me out.