"Before IDL, I had basically given up on programming and left it to others. It took weeks or months to try out new methods and see the results… This was the tool I had been dreaming of. I just took off with IDL…" Dr. Amir-Homayoon Najmi
Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

IDL, the Interactive Data Language, is the ideal software for data analysis, visualization, and cross-platform application development. IDL integrates a powerful, array-oriented language with numerous mathematical analysis and graphical display techniques, thus giving you incredible flexibility. A few lines of IDL can do the job of hundreds of lines of C or Fortran, without losing flexibility or performance. A fourth-generation language, IDL is radically more compact than C or Fortran. Using IDL, tasks that require days or weeks of programming with traditional languages can be accomplished in hours. Users can explore data interactively using IDL commands and then create complete applications by writing IDL programs.

IDL combines all of the tools you need for any type of project, from "quick-look," interactive analysis and display to large-scale commercial programming projects. Thousands of technical professionals use IDL every day to rapidly develop algorithms, interfaces, and powerful visualizations and quickly crunch through large numerical problems.

From data to solutions, get there faster with IDL.