Would be nice to have some language samples in the README.
Yeah I always hate it when projects do that. It should be the first thing in your README. Instead I can’t even find an example clicking through the docs. I guess I’ll pass for now
GNU Data Language
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Re: GNU Data Language
#12And not a single hello world example anywhere. This is a common theme, unfortunately.
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How and why would a person that doesn't know the language, who just wanted to see an example to know if it interests them, make that contribution? "It's open source, therefore YOU fix it" isn't going to excite people for open source, you know.
Re: GNU Data Language
#13What are the advantages of GNU Data Language over established alternatives such as R, Python/NumPy, or Octave?
I remember using IDL to analyze atmospheric observations made by satellites back in 1991.
Re: GNU Data Language
#14I worked with IDL 20 years ago. GDL at the time was somewhat different and the difference was great enough to prevent me from doing the entire thing in GDL. Great to see they made the move to be compatible with IDL. It has a great REPL. Easy to program. Could have been the python we never knew we wanted.
Re: GNU Data Language
#15These have to be some of the worst "clearly had time and money invested in them, but are totally shit" docs I've seen in a long while. No code samples, takes ~7 seconds to load each page and the "Concepts" page (a natural starting point) is blank [1].
Maybe "Explore IDL routines" might have some interesting stuff? Nope [2]. The most concise and useful page I've found seems to document the "IDL _help_ Syntax" [3].
I can't get over how poor these docs are.
1. https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/docs/idl_concepts.html
Re: GNU Data Language
#16I'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
Re: GNU Data Language
#17Is this actually associated with the GNU project? The GNU folks aren't fond of GitHub. [0]
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
Re: GNU Data Language
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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How and why would a person that doesn't know the language, who just wanted to see an example to know if it interests them, make that contribution? "It's open source, therefore YOU fix it" isn't going to excite people for open source, you know.
No open source project has the obligation to do what you mention. From my observation, the community that uses this kind of language already knows what it looks like.
Re: GNU Data Language
#19Is this actually associated with the GNU project? The GNU folks aren't fond of GitHub. [0] [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
The Wikipedia page for GDL states that it isn't an official GNU package. [0] I couldn't find an explanation as to why it is named such.
Re: GNU Data Language
#20I'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…
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