tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420860529344694449.post1475999181932615785..comments2008-04-05T01:12:03.438-07:00Dr JTSnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420860529344694449.post-27327955971005234672008-04-05T01:12:00.000-07:002008-04-05T01:12:00.000-07:00<I> You can't choose your family, and you can't choose the programming language your favorite applications are written in...</I><BR/><BR/>well .. probably one can: Martin. Ok.. sometimes he need to do some work on GEOS or PostGIS ;)<BR/><BR/>However choosing the programming language ones likes is probably one of the advantages if one is in research. But the choice is probably restricted if one needs to work with real large size datasets: LIDAR data, tracking data, topographic map data, or so.mentaerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06337822862621103715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420860529344694449.post-56765956539504765502008-04-04T15:33:00.000-07:002008-04-04T15:33:00.000-07:00You can't choose your family, and you can't choose the programming language your favorite applications are written in... <BR/><BR/>I just finished a very small patch for Mapserver, and nothing hammers home the pain C imposes on what should be relatively simple string manipulation like reading through the Mapserver code base. Unfortunately a great deal of what Mapserver does beyond pulling data in and rasterizing it is... string manipulation. All those OWS APIs, in all their multifarious versions.<BR/><BR/>And that's not even touching memory management.Paul Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04056244920940087995noreply@blogger.com