Grads scripting language

[bhatt vihang]

dear all,

limitions come only when one is not able to think
about "how to solve the problem". apart from grads
scripting, it also supports user defined functions. i
do not understand where to limit the limitation of
grads. those things which you feel not possible with
grads script, one can do with fortran or c without
leaving grads.

hope this is also not a provocative answer.

vihang bhatt

--- Eric DeWeaver <deweaver at AOS.WISC.EDU> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> In case you're not aware of it, there is a
> python-based language
> called CDAT, produced by PCMDI, which works with
> grads control files.
> Personally, I find the grads scripting language much
> easier
> to use.  Then again, CDAT has lots of powerful and
> useful features,
> and of course all the python goodies.
>
> The page for it is
> http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/software.
>
> High on my wish list would be a matlab interface,
> similar to the
> "readnc" function for netcdf files.  I've written
> something like this
> for fortran90, but it's a little dated.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tom Pollard wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for all of the quick responses.
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> > > Take a look at
> http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gsf.html
> > > You have to tweak a few things in your scripts,
> but this capability
> > > allows you to call your own library of small
> functions.
> >
> > Ok, I didn't know about this.  It's no exactly
> what I had in mind,
> > but it looks much better than nothing.
> >
> > > On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Tom Pollard wrote:
> > >> If I can ask a provocative question, are people
> really happy with the
> > >> scripting language?  I started to work on
> writing some scripts last
> > >> year and found the language to be very limiting
> in a number of ways.
> > >> The main thing that bothered me was that didn't
> seem to be possible
> > >> to load one script from another, which prevents
> you from building up
> > >> libraries of reusable functions.  Has anyone
> considered using Tcl or
> > >> Python as an alternative scripting language?
> If so, I'd love to help
> > >> work on this, in my (admittedly limited) free
> time.
> > It sounds like the answer is "no" - no one else is
> interested in
> > trying to integrate Tcl or Python as a scripting
> language for Grads?
> >
> > Tom
> >
>


Vihang Bhatt
Project Scientist
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
Hauz Khas
New Delhi
web: http://www.geocities.com/vihang_75/index.html

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