IDL, short for interactive data language, is a programming language used for data analysis. It is popular in particular areas of science, such as astronomy.
IDL is vectorized, numerical, and interactive, and it is commonly used for interactive processing of large amounts of data (including image processing). The syntax includes many constructs from Fortran and some from C.
IDL originated from early VAX/VMS/Fortran, and its syntax still shows its ...
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