Bug#524355: RFP: gdl -- Interactive Data Language (IDL) compiler

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

  Package name    : gdl
  Version         : 0.9rc2
  Upstream Author : Marc Schellens, Joel Gales, Alain Coulais, Gaurav Khanna,
                    Christopher Lee, Peter Messmer
  URL             : http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/
  License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Interactive Data Language (IDL) compiler

A free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler (ie.
runs IDL programs).

Features full syntax compatibility with IDL 6.0. ALL IDL language elements are
supported, including:

    * Objects,
    * Pointers,
    * Structs,
    * Arrays,
    * System variables,
    * Common blocks,
    * Assoc variables,
    * All operators,
    * All datatypes,
    * _EXTRA, _STRICT_EXTRA and _REF_EXTRA keywords...

The file input output system is fully implemented
(Exception: For formatted I/O the C() sub-codes are not supported yet)

netCDF files are fully supported.

HDF files are partially supported.

Basic support for HDF5 files.

IDL is a registered trademark of ITT Visual Information
Solutions.