Carl,
I use NCL in interactive mode on a regular basis -- mostly for
debugging methods for scripts that I'm writing but sometimes just for
quick calculations, simple plots, or mucking around with NetCDF files.
The interface definitely has limitations (it would be nice to have
better command line completion and a built-in documentation) but the
ease of dealing with NetCDF files makes it my first choice over Matlab
or Octave in many circumstances.
I'm not sure what you mean about not being able to load
"contributed.ncl" more than once -- are you getting some kind of
error? I haven't encountered any problems with the latest version
(5.2.1).
~Rob
-- Robert Nicholas Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, Box 351640 Seattle, WA 98195-1640 rnicholas@atmos.washington.edu tel 206-438-3509, fax 206-543-0308 On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Carl Schreck <carl.schreck@noaa.gov> wrote: > I was just curious how many people use the interactive mode in NCL? I know > it's quite popular in other languages like matlab and IDL, but I've always > used almost exclusively as a scripting language. > Part of why I don't is because I usually need contributed.ncl, and you can > only load that once. That makes it more a little difficult to call scripts > in interactive mode, but there are ways around it. Anyway, just > wondering... > Thanks, > Carl > -- > Carl J. Schreck III, PhD > Postdoctoral Research Associate > Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC) > NOAA's National Climatic Data Center > 151 Patton Avenue > Asheville, NC 28801 > Tel: 828-257-3140 > carl.schreck@noaa.gov > http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/carl/ _______________________________________________ ncl-talk mailing list List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe: http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talkReceived on Tue Dec 21 10:57:15 2010
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