The Interactive Language of IDL
The IDL or the interactive data language is a kind of programming language recognized as a data analysis. IDL is numerical and interactive that is commonly utilized for used of processing large quantity of data including image processing. The syntax includes Fortran and C. Compared to other programming languages, the IDL is known to be fast in operating the vector operations, it can be fast like the custom loop in Fortran or C or a bit slow if there will be a need for processing individually. The object-oriented characteristic of the IDL language requires having a programmer responsible for managing memory allocation.