"Joe" == Joe Harrington <jh@oobleck.astro.cornell.edu> writes: Joe> octave for matlab, both badly, as you note). It's to
Joe> facilitate the conversion of code to Python. We can do an Joe> 80% solution without a great deal of effort. The idea is to Joe> create a code converter that would handle all of the Joe> procedural syntax, and which would flag in loud comments the Joe> things it couldn't do. Then the user would hand-code the Joe> remainder. We would not have a function compatibility Is it clear that the EULA forbids translating a limited part of a user's IDL file into another syntax? That sounds like something different than reverse engineering. Do you have a copy of the IDL EULA? I've never seen it and couldn't find it via quick searches on google or on the RSI site. JDH