Joe Harrington and Paul Barrett
GSFC
This BoF will provide scientists with a forum to discuss their near-term development desires for Interactive Data Analysis Environments. Our focus will include features recently developed in non-astronomical scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Java, etc.), models for developing scientific application code so that it is useable in many environments, and ease of learning and use. Panelists will represent several existing systems (AIPS/AIPS++, IDL, IRAF, Python, etc.). We invite everyone, particularly scientists, to come and share their views and wishes.