On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM, David Whysong <[email protected]> wrote: >> New language features include: >> >> * List and hash are containers that allow you to manage variable >> consisting of different data types >> * Negative array indices allow subscripting from the end of an array >> * !NULL provides a null variable; useful in array concatenation >> * FOREACH operator iterates over the elements in an array, list, hash >> or structure >> * Automatic garbage collection for simplified memory management >> * Operator overloading on object methods allows for new definitions for >> IDL operators and routines such as PRINT and HELP > > > Those don't seem so new to me! Oh, wait... >
Right. I know. Sometimes capabilities are not as important as ease of use and perception/marketing. Of course, strong on all fronts does a good product make. > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:10 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >> some news from the competition >> >> http://www.ittvis.com/ProductServices/IDL/LatestRelease.aspx >> >> -- >> Puneet Kishor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl >> > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
