Re: [ferret_users] ferret into the future

[Gary Strand <strandwg@xxxxxxxx>]

My general feeling is that one uses whatever tools that are available 
that are appropriate for the job. I've used VCDAT, NCL, IDV, NCAR 
Graphics inside Fortran code, GrADS, ferret (of course) and a number of 
other packages as I needed them.

I use ferret most often, for reasons I've outlined in emails to the 
list over the years. Personally speaking, I don't believe ferret needs 
a layer on top of what it is - other packages I've used have done that 
and more often than not, in my experience, what happens is that so many 
options need to be changed at the topmost level that one might as well 
have gotten into the guts, as it were, and made one's changes there.

Just IMHO.

Gary Strand
strandwg@ucar.edu
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/strandwg