Re: Re: Wikipedia criticism about root

Hi,

Valeri Onuchin wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> my question is slightly offtopic.
> You wrote in http://www.insectnation.org/howto/problems-with-root
> "That would involve providing a large array of statistical analysis tools, wide support for input and output formats (including the AIDA interfaces and data formats like FITS, HDF4/5 and plain text comma/tab/etc.-delimited data)"
>
> What is HDF4/5 format (google gave me very little info about it)?

HDF5 file format is certainly documented (well, unlike Root one): http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/H5.format.html

HDF5 home with all documentation and standard sw in several languages is here:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5

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