<p>Hi Hossein, </p><p>IDL is a useful tool geared towards medical image processing, as well as handling of large astronomical datasets. </p><p>IDL is Fortran and C based so if you are a fortran programmer and interested in "lean routines" to accomplish numerical analysis then you'll like IDL.</p><p>I'm an IDL programmer migrating towards ITK/VTK development. They both have their strengths. </p><p>VTK has a richer set of classes, multiple intrepreted language support, strong integration from 3rd party libraries such as afsl</p><p>and contributons from a wide open source community. </p><p>I think I'll continue being an idl developer for prototyping programs till I fully migrate to ITK/VTK.</p><p>Best regards,</p><p>Cartik</p><p /><p>On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57:27 +0430 "Hossein Ghadiri" <hossein.ghadiri@gmail.com />wrote: <br />>All, <br />> <br />>If some one has any experiences working with IDL, give <br />>me some notes. <br />> <br />>Are they comparable? What can do IDL that VTK-ITK can <br />>not? <br />> <br />>Is it on C++ platform or stand on another languages? <br />> <br />>Best <br />> <br />>Hossein Ghadiri <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> </p><p>Cartik S. Sharma</p><p>Sr. Developer</p><p>SimQuest LLC</p><p>(301).587.9440 extn 11</p>