On Apr 2, 9:52=A0am, karo03de <karo0...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Not bad, possibly the IDL Workbench is the result of one of the last
> misunderstood April fools!?
> Karsten
>
> On 2 Apr., 03:31, Chris Torrence <gorth...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In a surprise announcement, ITT Visual Information Solutions (a
wholly-
> > owned subsidiary of a large cor****ation) has declared that it will
> > replace all IDL developers with "Code Bots" (TM).
>
> > Bill 101 Okubo made the announcement, stating: "All our customers knew
> > that we had at least 500 developers working on IDL. They never
> > understood why we couldn't implement a single thing that *they*
> > wanted. It was always what the other guy wanted..." With today's
> > announcement, ITTVIS has recognized the problem. There will now be 5
> > Code Bots, who will do all the work of the 500 developers.
>
> > "These Code Bots are great!" declared Chris 001 Torrence. "They know
> > *exactly* what the customer wants. No mistakes, no Live Tools, iTools,
> > or some such nonsense to improve productivity." Torrence also declared
> > that IDL's path management is history. "No one wants their path
> > managed. The IDL path should be free to do as it pleases. From now on,
> > the entire Internet will be parsed on startup."
>
> > "Plus, the Code Bots have another advantage..." stated 001 Torrence.
> > "No feelings to get hurt. Those IDL developers were always reading
> > that wild and crazy newsgroup, and actually paying attention to the
> > comments. Hah! Can you imagine it?"
>
> > After a quick DELVAR, the former IDL developers are expected to seek
> > positions at The Mathworks. Cleve Moler seemed excited to have them -
> > "Heck, we can always use more people. That's like 500 more toolkits we
> > can crank out and charge for. Woo hoo."
>
> > Finally, with the change, the next version of IDL, 7.0000001, will be
> > released on Monday at 12:01 am. It is rumored to contain 6000 new math
> > routines, the IDL-Valhalla Bridge (codename Bifrost), and
> > "superthreading", which will make all IDL programs run 10 times faster
> > than native C code.
>
> > 000001001000011111100000101111111111
I 100% agree whit you. It is really a nigthmare!!!!
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